Jungshik Shin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > >> (AFAIK) W2K and later _are able_ to use UTF-16LE encoded Unicode for >> filenames, >> but because of backward compatibility reasons using 8-bit codepages is >> much >> more likely. > > No. _Both_ NTFS (only supported by Win 2k/XP) and VFAT (supported by >Win 2k/XP and Win 9x/ME) use UTF-16LE **exclusively**.
But those OSes also support older file systems (e.g. floppies), and shares where things are not as clear (at least to me). >In that respect, >Windows filesystems are 'saner' than Unix file systems. APIs for accessing >them come in two flavors, 'A' APIs and 'W' APIs, though as I explained >in another message of mine. In that message you mentioned a .dll - should perl look for and link to that DLL ?
