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
W
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Ed Batutis wrote:
> "Jarkko Hietaniemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > You do know that ...
> Yes.
>
> If wctomb or mbtowc are to be used, then Perl's Unicode must be converted
> either to the locale's wide char or to its multibyte. This is
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:47:32 +0900
SADAHIRO Tomoyuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had talked on this "problem" (well, I don't know whether Perl
> supports multibyte file/path names or not.) in a Japanese Perlers'
> mail list.
>
> http://www.freeml.com/message/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/0004467 (in Japa
"Jarkko Hietaniemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> You do know that ...
Yes.
If wctomb or mbtowc are to be used, then Perl's Unicode must be converted
either to the locale's wide char or to its multibyte. This isn't trivial,
but Mozilla solved this same problem. It
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:31:15 -0500
"Ed Batutis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> $newdir = "kanji_here_\x89\x5C";
> mkdir $newdir;
>
> The above works the way I'd expect, although
>
> print (-d $newdir ? 'yes' : 'no');
>
> prints 'no' - oops a character handling bug! The second byte of the kanji i
*Which* multibyte?
This is the key point. The answer on a Unix-like system is "the one
you get
when you do wctomb()". And that routine knows what to do by virtue of
You do know that wctomb() has nothing to do with Perl's Unicode
implementation?
And that wctomb() is not defined to be Unicode?
An
"Jarkko Hietaniemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> *Which* multibyte?
This is the key point. The answer on a Unix-like system is "the one you get
when you do wctomb()". And that routine knows what to do by virtue of
setlocale() (or the default if setlocale is never
In 'perlunicode' under 'when Unicode does not happen' there is the
statement
(regarding Unicode functionality and the file system-related functions
and
operators - BTW the author missed '-X' ):
Oops.
"One reason why Perl does not attempt to resolve the role of Unicode
in this
cases is that the
In 'perlunicode' under 'when Unicode does not happen' there is the statement
(regarding Unicode functionality and the file system-related functions and
operators - BTW the author missed '-X' ):
"One reason why Perl does not attempt to resolve the role of Unicode in this
cases is that the answers a
