Well I can certainly qualify as a un*x-oriented monk (but I am no zealot;) IMVHO here we are talking filesystem user interface (and only that -- meaning using ONE env var for TWO (or more purposes) does not feel right):

  • latin-1-like-aware filesystems have "forbidden chars" (NTFS quite a lot I think). What does happen with unicode-aware filesystems?
  • Perl should ideally allow a default that makes sense for the platform but IFF the default is sensible. It's better if the default is the same for for all OS. If there is no consensus, then some kind of pragma will be needed like 'use feature filesystem qw(unicode-aware ...)'
  • Feature can be promoted to default once unicode-aware filesystems are really stable y/or their semantics/implications clearly understood
  • There is always the option of supporting an OS-dependent version of the needed calls (for unicode-aware filesystem). Not ideal but often necessary in the case of conflicting abstractions.

    • cheers --stephan

    In reply to Re: unicode version of readdir by sgt
    in thread unicode version of readdir by dk

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