in reply to unexpected behavior on Win2k german platform

I'm guessing the file names are encoding in UTF16. Based on How to read a Unicode file?, try opening your file of filenames like: 
open(FILE, "<:encoding(UTF-16LE)", $filename);

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(You are using perl5.8, aren't you?) It's possible there will be some file names that perl won't be able to open due to character set issues.

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Re: Re: unexpected behavior on Win2k german platform
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 16, 2004 at 09:29 UTC
    HI,
    Thanks a lot!!!!!!!

    Just using the open(FILE, "<:encoding(UTF-16LE)", $filename); line in script & compiling it on English W2k platform did NOT work,But when I installed ActiveState perl 5.8.2 on W2k German platform & used above line in script it gave me expected results!!
    Now next thing is, I want to convert this script file to exe. (Because I want to make this script to be run without perl interpreter) I used indigostar's perl2exe utility.This works fine on English,but not on German!! Even I installed this on German but the same thing. Do anybody is aware of such utility or solve this problem?
    Again thanks in advance!!
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