Oh. I'm absolutely against of making unicode-aware behavior by default, be it even really really stable. Filesystem business is external to perl, as well as locales and IO. Actually, perl does really well with the latter two - one says explicitly "use locale" and one uses IO layers, and that's it. What I propose is some orthogonality in this regard, say "use feature filesystem => 'utf8'" and enjoy utf8 input from readdir, and possibly from open.

update: 'use feature' and the like are global, possibly a three-arg 'opendir' or two-arg 'readdir' would be better? Or, like 'binmode FILEHANDLE', something like 'utf8mode DIRHANDLE' would be more interesting?

In reply to Re^2: unicode version of readdir by dk
in thread unicode version of readdir by dk

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