zentara,

use utf8; works with the code given; however, when I incorporate it into the larger program it does not work. I'm mimicking that in the posted script by replacing 

my $file = '06_Protection_de_la_tête.xml';

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with 
use File::Find::Rule;
my @files = File::Find::Rule->file->name('*.xml')->in('.');
my $file = shift @files;

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If I follow this with 

use Encode;
my $file = decode('utf8', $file)

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then all of the non-Tk lines break: 
06_Protection_de_la_t�te.xml: No such file or directory

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Argh!

Do you suspect this to be Tk-related since the other commands work fine and there is an open bug related to this matter? Tk::ExecuteCommand builds the command by appending to the command I pass:

$self->{-command} . ' 2>&1 |'

Could this concatenation be changing the internal encoding of the string no matter what I send to the module? As I noted in my other reply, I can get all of this working if I modify a copy of the module and use utf8::downgrade, but I don't know if it's wise to change the one in production.

In reply to Re^2: Tk and Non-ASCII File Names by eff_i_g
in thread Tk and Non-ASCII File Names by eff_i_g

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