Thank you for your reply. If you look to all these "tricks" you start thinking that perl unicode support (at least for the windows universe) is going in the wrong way. In the old days of codepages, people knew what was going on from the OS itself, perl did not have much to do with it. With all this unicode stuff going into perl string internals, people lost the control and are unable to move on with simple solutions. I have never found such annoying problem, this was not for what unicode was created for.

Look at the pieces of code that people are publishing here... it is madness... simple scripts now have to include weird code like "utf8", "Encode", "Decode", etc (like a secret project) just to handle string variables... I understand the utf8 and other requirements posted here, but this is not the way, really... this is not the old perl glamour I once fell in love... the ç, ã and other latin languages characters are used by thousands of millions, world wide, it's a huge problem and I can't find a simple and elegant solution yet for handling file names. Future developings of perl should change radicaly this, people within latin languages countries will be fed up of perl rapidaly. Unicode handling is dificult, we all know this, but in perl is going nuts.

Sorry if I am exagerating but I am stuck in some projects because of this ridiculous problem. I'm wasting hours of searching tricks instead of working on code.

In reply to Re^2: Accent file names issue by ruimelo73
in thread Accent file names issue by ruimelo73

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