Big thanks to everyone who answered, I think I gathered the information needed. I didn't solve the problem, but at least I have an overview of what is possible and what is not.

Also, during the last two days I've tried to hack blead and it became apparent that it is not really easy to build unicode filename support in. I think the best syntax I can come up with for enabling unicode readdir would be

binmode(DIRHANDLE, ':utf8')

but it is far from trivial to implement that without introducing evil hacks.

My plan now is to try to come up with a minimal patch that would enable unicode support not only for readdir() but for all other filename-based functions. I guess there would be opposition from non-windows folks, but let's see how it turns out. As for now, if anyone thinks if it worth it (or if it isn't) please share your opinions.

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