Here si the code that procudes and fills the contents of the drop down menu: 
my @files = <../data/text/*.txt>;
my @display_files = map /([^\/]+)\.txt/, @files;

print br;
print start_form( action=>'index.pl' );
    print h1( {class=>'lime'}, "&#917;&#960;&#941;&#955;&#949;&#958;&#
+949; &#964;&#959; &#954;&#949;&#943;&#956;&#949;&#957;&#959; &#960;&#
+959;&#965; &#963;&#949; &#949;&#957;&#948;&#953;&#945;&#966;&#941;&#9
+61;&#949;&#953; => ",
                                popup_menu( -name=>'select', -values=>
+\@display_files ),
                                submit('&#917;&#956;&#966;&#940;&#957;
+&#953;&#963;&#951;'));

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As Ani from efnet told me maybe the OS i use (xp from MicroSuck) is so damn persisting on creating utf-8 file contents buu saving the filenames as iso-8859-7 instead!!!
What do you think folks?

In reply to Re^2: Encoding problems by Nik
in thread Encoding problems by Nik

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