[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Wondering whether anyone has come across any modules or binary tools
>for handling the non-ASCII characters allowed in Mac file/path names
>such as the trademark and registered symbols. I'm moving some MacPerl
>scripts to native Perl in OS X and they need to find, copy, and unpack
>various files in an automated build process. Unfortunately, I cannot
>eliminate traditional Mac naming conventions in all cases, especially
>for backward compatibility. Perl finds and system calls to copy and
>unpack files choke on non-ASCII characters in path names.
Aaron,
Can you post an example of something that fails? In general, most of
Perl's file handling couldn't care less what characters are in a
filename, so I'm surprised by the difficulty.
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