Platform: Windows NT 4.0 Perl version: 5.005 I'm having some problems traversing directories who's names have a Unicode character in them... The functions in Perl just seem to ignore the directories and when using a system call to dir Perl doesn't recognize the chars correctly... ##This way reads in the directories but cannot recognize the one Unicode char open( subdir, "dir /x /ad . |"); @subdir = <subdir>; close(subdir); ##This way ignores any directories with Unicode chars opendir( subdir, "." ); @subdir = grep(!/^\./, grep( -d, readdir(subdir))); closedir(subdir); Is there a way to use the Unicode module to recognize the Unicode characters? Any help appreciated... Thanks, Mark