> I'm trying to figure out if I can handle Unicode filenames on > Windows using Perl 5.8.4, and if so, how.
[...] > So my question is: How can I deal with these files? > > I've tried using Perl scalars containing UTF-8, UTF-16LE and > UTF-16BE encodings of the filenames, but none of them work > either. Indeed, if I try to write a new file with a name > constructed in those ways, then the name of the file actually > created is simply the sequence of bytes that make up those encodings. I don't think this is possible from Perl code right now. You need to call CreateFileW() to open a file with a Unicode name. If you want to hack something, then I would suggest to write a little XS module that just swaps out the file handle in a PerlIO* structure. Look at PerlIOWin32_open() in win32/win32io.c to see how Perl currently opens a file. Another quick-and-dirty "solution" would be to build a custom Perl by hacking win32/win32.h. If you change the USING_WIDE definition to "1" then you end up with a version of Perl that has the old "-C" behavior hardcoded. Remember that this is not really compatible with Perl's Unicode handling. Cheers, -Jan
