I mean, realistically, why would any of you busy gurus want to spend time investigating a patch from a lil' girl without any credits in the perl community?

Because the patch does things that are of value to the community, and because we don't judge the merit of a patch based on your reputation in the perl community. Now if you go on perl5porters and write a bunch of replies to bug reports you dont understand then you will quickly end up in the community killfile, but if you step up with a patch that is sufficient for the perl core developers to polish up and bed down thats a totally different story.

Seriously, if the community sees you trying to do the right thing but with some rough edges they will step up to help you. We dont care who you are, we care what you contribute and whether your ideas are sound.

And frankly we need people like you. Just based on your original post it sounds like you have some worthy contributions to make.

Lastly: there arent that many Win32 devlopers active on p5p, since you apparently are one I reckon youd find yourself a lot more welcome than you realize.

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In reply to Re^3: Japanese filenames and USING_WIDE in win32.h by demerphq
in thread Japanese filenames and USING_WIDE in win32.h by almut

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