Hello,

I am struggling with handling long filenames that contain international characters such as accented vowels.
Here is a code example:

$path = 'c:\temp';
@list = `dir /a:d /b /s $path`;

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If a directory in c:\temp contains an international character, then when I try to use the corresponding entry in @list (such as when doing a "new Win32::Perms"), it fails because it cannot find the path specified (and yes, it DOES exist).
Any suggestions on how I could get Perl to handle those characters correctly?
So far I have tried "use utf8" and several "use encoding" but to no avail.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Schlika.

In reply to Handling accented characters in filenames on Win32 by Schlika

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