Dear monks

I've been trying for days and I'm really getting upset, because or 1) I'm a total idiot or 2) perl makes things difficult when it cames to unicode.

I just want to connect to a Sqlite database on a Windows machine. The database is in a directory containing non english characters... Teh file position is selected with a Tk Gui. I've tried different modules and different approches. No results

If there is a non english caracter in the path, it just wan't open the database (C:\folder-ü)

use strict;
use warnings;
use Tk;
use DBD::SQLite;
my $mw = new MainWindow;
    my $types = [ ['Text', '.db'], ['All Files',   '*'],];
    my $file= $mw->getOpenFile(-filetypes => $types);
    my $shortpath=Win32::GetANSIPathName($file); #for path with accent
+s    
    my $path_and_databasename=$shortpath;
my $lco;
    
    #connecting to sqlite
    my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:$path_and_databasename", "", ""
+, { RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit => 1, PrintError => 0 });
    my $all = $dbh->selectall_arrayref("SELECT language    FROM metada
+ta");
    foreach my $row_db (my @all) {
         ($lco) = @$row_db;
    }    
print "Connected: $lco\n";

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Any solution, I don't need to use getOpenFile. Any other solution with a Browse Tk would be fine!

In reply to open sqilite path unicode by Anonymous Monk

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