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Re^2: encoding of file names

by amir_e_a (Hermit)
on Mar 25, 2010 at 20:53 UTC ( [id://830964]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: encoding of file names
in thread encoding of file names

Can you please tell me how to decode them? I am not quite experienced with Encode. I still don't understand what to specify as the from encoding.

And since you mention it, i actually am curious about Windows, because i plan to make this program portable and i already had similar problems on Windows in the past.

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Re^3: encoding of file names
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 25, 2010 at 21:34 UTC

    I still don't understand what to specify as the from encoding.

    Usually, the file names are text encoded as per the local's encoding. In fact, I dare say that's the expectation.

    Most users have a UTF-8 locale. You could assume UTF-8, and worry about it when someone complains.

    If you want to actually get the right encoding, your best bet is probably the following undocumented function:

    require encoding; # Or "use encoding ();" with the parens. my $locale_encoding = encoding::_get_locale_encoding();

    This is what core module open uses.

    And since you mention it, i actually am curious about Windows

    It's a real mess. Bad support by builtins and by modules for accessing Windows's wide character interface. Bad support at finding the code page (last time I checked) of the single-byte interface (even though it's easier than locales in unix). Maybe some other time.

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