I am using ActiveState PerlApp to package a Win32 application.

Today I have found a situation with a Swedish user where he has an accented character in his username. Several programmatic manipulations of files using directory names fomr the environment were successful. But as you can see in this error message: 

couldn't read bitmap file "C:\DOCUME~1\HKANNI~1.HEM\LOKALA~1\Temp\pdk-
+Håkan Nil
sson-3396\/Tk/arrowdownwin.xbm": No such file or directoryerror readin
+g bitmap f
ile "C:\DOCUME~1\HKANNI~1.HEM\LOKALA~1\Temp\pdk-Håkan Nilsson-3
+396\/Tk/arrowdownwin.xbm" at /PerlApp/Tk/Widget.pm line 205.
 at /PerlApp/Tk/Widget.pm line 203

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Widget.pm is trying to load bitmaps, but there is a suspicious \/ combination in the path. On the next line the porgramme dies.

Never having struck this sort of thing before I am at somewhat of a loss. Does anybody have any advice or suggestions.

jdtoronto

In reply to Accented characters in directory names? by jdtoronto

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