Can any one shed any light on an issue I am having with Tk getOpenFile. I can open 99% percent of files by calling this, however I can not get any file names with a '£' to open.

The file will open with a standard call to open passed by readdir, but not with getOpenFile. I also notice that getOpenFile translates the '£' to a 'u' which Im sure is whats causing the issue

A small Tk app shows the problem. 
use Tk;
use strict;
my $mw = new MainWindow();
&getfile;
MainLoop();
sub getfile{
    my $filename = $mw->getOpenFile();

    if(-f $filename){
        open (FILE,"<",$filename)
            || die "unable to open $filename $!\n";
        close (FILE);
        die "FILE OPENED -> $filename\n";
    }else{
         die $!;
    }
}

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I am running Active State 5.8 on Win XP

thanks: Skywalker

In reply to opening files with tk getOpenFile by skywalker

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