Monks,

I'm working on a Unix (Solaris) system with a file that has non-ASCII characters in its name. When I perform an ls the file name shows as 06_Protection_de_la_tête.xml and my locale is as follows: 

LANG=
LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_ALL=

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When I work with this file in Perl everything is OK until Tk (Tk::ExecuteCommand) enters the scene as shown/described below: 

use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;

my $file = '06_Protection_de_la_tête.xml';
my $cmd = "ls -l $file";

### This works.
print qx($cmd);

### So does this.
open my $F, '<', $file or die $!;
print scalar <$F>;

### This fails.
### An error message states that the file cannot be found and the 
### "LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX" is shown in UTF-8.
my $mw = MainWindow->new;
my $exec = $mw->ExecuteCommand(
    -command => $cmd,
)->pack;
$exec->execute_command;
$exec->update;

MainLoop;

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Here's the erroneous output:

06_Protection_de_la_tête.xml: No such file or directory

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I've dug through Tk::ExecuteCommand and I cannot figure out why this error is surfacing.

Any ideas or pointers?

Thanks!

In reply to Tk and Non-ASCII File Names by eff_i_g

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