Michael Ludwig (mil...@gmx.de) writes: >> For instance, I use Windows exclusively, so Unicode in file names is >> no problem. > > Did a quick test: > > (v5.12.1) built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (so ActiveState) > > * aââ¬Â¦b.txt > * not correct > * doesn't have anything with "uni" or "utf" in "perl -V" OK, so the implementation would have to know that on this platform filenames are in UTF-16, on this it is UTF-8 and so on.
Not that it is a terribly big deal. In the program where I want to support Unicode names, I've already written a module around Win32API::File, which permits to open a file in Windows, and the associate it with a file handle. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
