Addendum: I found out how to get UTF8 results from readdir, if you need them (for German, you don't). You use the "perl -C" flag or set ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}.

Right now it's slightly broken because it returns utf8 strings, but doesn't set the utf8 flag on the strings. There is a workaround:

#!perl -w
#
use File::Find;
use strict;
use Encode qw(decode_utf8 is_utf8);


my $start = "/home/Hirschk/pmonks/utftest";


{
  local ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS} = 1;
  finddepth( \&showme, $start );
}

sub fixutf8 {
  for (@_) {
    if (${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS} && !is_utf8($_)) {
      $_ = decode_utf8($_); 
    }
  }
}
sub showme {
  fixutf8($File::Find::dir,$File::Find::name,$_);
  print "\$_ = $_\n";
}

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The fixutf8 function should, well, fix it.

In reply to readdir UTF8 by Thelonius
in thread Unicode (ä, ö, ü in German) Problem with File::Find under Windows2000 by TeddyC

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