Heya. The example below creates a file named 东西.txt, which is wrong. Operating system is Win2K, file system is NTFS. Generally I have no problems with filenames in unicode. What to do?

I have found Win32 API directory searches that return wide / unicode filenames by super search, but I can't understand it enough to change it to create files. 

perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.7 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 14 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Binary build 815 [211909] provided by ActiveState
Built Nov  2 2005 08:44:52

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#!perl
use utf8;
use strict;
use diagnostics;

my $name    = '东西.txt';

{
    open my $fh, '>', $name or die "could not open file <$name> for wr
+iting: $!";
    binmode $fh, ':utf8';
    print $fh "&#20320;&#22909;&#19990;&#30028;\n";
    close $fh;
};

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PS: I did not use any HTML entities in my submission. The e2 software is just being "helpful". You figure out what I really wrote.

In reply to Unicode in filenames by Anonymous Monk

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