Hello esteemed monks, I am having trouble using wide characters in filenames on Windows 10 using File::Copy. The wide characters appear just fine if I write them to a text file, and I can manually copy/paste them into filenames in Windows Explorer, but if I use File::Copy they come out all wonky.

use File::Copy;

my $oldname = "file.txt";
my $newname = "Hildur_Guðnadóttir.txt";

copy(oldname, $newname);

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This file name comes out looking like so:

Hildur_Guðnadóttir.txt

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Yet if I open a file and write $newname to it, it displays just fine.

Any way to do this correctly with (or without) File::Copy ?

Thanks, Scott

In reply to Wide characters in Windows filenames with File::Copy by slugger415

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