I'm trying to process all files in a directory with readdir. Problem is with several filenames which has chars that look like "square boxes" (when viewing directory content in explorer.exe). When I copy and paste one of those filenames into some other editor here, I see bunch of jap (or chinese?) chars instead of "sqare boxes" (like the filenames were supposed to look like I guess). When I look at these filenames in the console (cmd.exe) these files are listed with bunch of ??? chars.

Anyway, perl doesn't want to open any of these files. So how can we access these files from perl? (This is with Activestate perl v5.8.8 build 817 on winxp).

Thanks.

In reply to Opening files with japanese/chinese chars in filename by Anonymous Monk

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