Hi,

I'm trying to get my Perl script to run under Apache/CGI on Windows.

With latin-based pathnames the shebang notation works fine under all Apache versions for determining the perl executable location, e.g.:
#!C:/Program Files/SpatialDirect/Perl/bin/perl.exe

If I then introduce Japanese character data into the path I can only get the script to successfully run under Apache 1.3.33 (no Apache2 variants work). e.g.:
#!C:/Temp/情報/Perl/bin/perl.exe

This is almost acceptable but where things fall down is if the Japanese (Shift_JIS) characters contain the hex 5C byte sequence (\ in ascii). e.g.:
#!C:/Program Files/表示設定/Perl/bin/perl.exe

Under this scenario Apache still seems happy but Perl now complains with the following errors:
Premature end of script headers: c:/program files/apache group/apache2
+/cgi-bin/spatialdirect/spatialdirect.pl
Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: .) at c:\\PROGRA~1\\APA
+CHE~1\\apache2\\cgi-bin\\SPATIA~1\\SPATIA~1.PL line 40.\n
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at c:\\PROGRA~1\\APACHE~1\\apache2\\
+cgi-bin\\SPATIA~1\\SPATIA~1.PL line 40.\n

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Where line 40 (referenced in the error above) is the first non-comment line in the code and contains simply:
use strict;

Commenting out this line gives the same error on the next line which is:
use LWP::UserAgent;

ie. Perl is having a lot of trouble with the un-escaped \ in the path.

Does anyone know how I can get around this?

thanks,
Nic

In reply to shebang I18N and apache by nicr

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