Greetings Monks !
I am traversing a series of directories / subdirectories on a W2K system, and fetching the size of each file in the directory, with something like this snippet:
@filenames = grep (!/^\.\.?$/ , readdir (DIR));
closedir DIR;
foreach (@filenames){
  $file = "$dir$_";
  $size = -s "$file";
  $h{$file} = $size;
}

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This works fine for filenames containing ASCII / Latin1 characters, but  -s "$file" returns undef, when the filename contains Unicode chars (japanese, ukrainian, thai, etc...) which is not really useful...
I've tried adding "use utf8;" to the script, but there is no change.
Is there a way to specify which encoding to use for opendir / readdir, as with open ?

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Olivier

In reply to Win32 Unicode filenames: how to get their size ? by olivierp

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