Dang. I need to add CreateFileW() to Win32API::File... ): I thought I had but it was Win32API::Registry that included the *W hooks...

Update: Short of that, I think you are stuck with only 8-bit characters when using open. So your options are likely:

  1. Switch to a locale where the file name only requires 8-bit characters
  2. Use the "short name" to open the file (at least I think that will work around this problem
  3. Rename the file (or, under NTFS, provide a hard link to the file using a name w/o problematic characters)

It is too bad that Win32.pm includes GetShortPathName() [which is GetShortPathNameA()] but not GetShortPathNameW().

Update: Yep, I checked the latest Perl source code and open under Win32 hasn't been made smart enough to handle UTF-8 strings.

ikegami mentioned (in the CB) using Win32::API to get access to CreateFileW(), which you could combine with Win32API::File's OsFHandleOpen() to get a Perl file handle to use.

- tye        

In reply to Re: Problems Opening file with Perl where path has UTF8 (sorry) by tye
in thread Problems Opening file with Perl where path has UTF8 by lustyx

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