Copy Unicode Directory Recursively

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear monks

If there is one thing I really hate is the buzz about unicode + Perl in Windows. Way too complicated, for me at least. Now I am trying to copy 1 to 1 a directory (with subfolders and files) to another location. Directory and/or files may contain unicode names (at least this is what I suppose: üäö, cyrillc, and so on). I am failing. I cannot install Win32::Unicode.

I tried:

use File::Copy::Recursive qw(dircopy);
dircopy($from,$to) or "Move $from -> $to failed: $!";
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If in my folder structure there is a file called üüü.txt it just fails (no error message) i.e. it skips the file. What alternative on Windows would you suggest?

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Re: Copy Unicode Directory Recursively by Anonymous Monk on Feb 12, 2018 at 12:12 UTC
Why cant you install win32::unicode?	[reply]
Re^2: Copy Unicode Directory Recursively by Anonymous Monk on Feb 12, 2018 at 12:17 UTC
It just fail to install. There is another post on Perlmonks (last week) with somebody having the same problem... and some discussion about it.	[reply]
Re^3: Copy Unicode Directory Recursively by Anonymous Monk on Feb 12, 2018 at 13:43 UTC
Here you go cpan -i -T Win32::Unicode	[reply]
Re^4: Copy Unicode Directory Recursively by Anonymous Monk on Feb 12, 2018 at 14:11 UTC
Re^4: Copy Unicode Directory Recursively by Anonymous Monk on Feb 12, 2018 at 17:28 UTC
Re: Copy Unicode Directory Recursively by Anonymous Monk on Feb 12, 2018 at 12:13 UTC
Have you tried xcopy?	[reply]
Re^2: Copy Unicode Directory Recursively by bart (Canon) on Feb 13, 2018 at 07:17 UTC
Or Robocopy. There's no good reason to insist on doing this in Perl, especially if that fails.	[reply]
Re^3: Copy Unicode Directory Recursively by Anonymous Monk on Feb 13, 2018 at 07:41 UTC
Heh ive never even had the chance to use xcopy... And apparently it has serious limitations (254 path length)... Win32::unicode cptreeW otoh works	[reply]