Hi!

I'm stuck here and could not find any good search keywords to answer my question. So, sorry if this is already answered elsewhere.

I'm working on a SLES Linux with UTF-8 support switched on. Given is a file which contains german umlauts in its name (e.g. 'Fehler für Projekt x.xls') The following code worked perfectly on an older SLES:

unless (opendir(DIR,$scandir)) {
      confess "can't open the directory $scandir: $@";
}
@files=grep {-f "$scandir/$_"} readdir(DIR);

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On this machine, it is possible to use 
chdir ($scandir);
opendir(DIR,'.');
@files=grep {-f $_} readdir(DIR);

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but as soon as I concatenate the retrieved filename with some other string, e.g. "$scandir/$_" or $scandir."/".$_ or $scandir."/".$files[0], "-f" does not work any more plus I cannot copy or move $scandir."/".$files[0]. Is there any general setting that I have to do in my perl code to treat utf files correctly? I already tried "use utf8;" or 'use encoding "utf8";' but these did not make a difference.

Thanks for your help

Mike

In reply to treat files with umlauts (utf) by mike.scharnow

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