Using short file names won't work on Windows NTFS file systems for which support for 8.3 file names is disabled. For performance reasons, the file servers where I work do not support 8.3 file names. See How to Disable the 8.3 Name Creation on NTFS Partitions.

There are also times when one needs in one's Perl script the true file name with all its halfwidth katakana and right-to-left Hebrew in it. This is often my situation.

I understand the reason why Perl's support of Unicode file names on Windows is the way it is — which is to say, lame. But I sure wish, in the interest of simple things being easy, it were not the way it is. Even in those cases, like mine, where portability isn't a factor, the often-suggested workarounds using Win32API* modules are less than ideal. And in an ever more plural world, it makes Perl seem not very Modern that it can't speak Chinese file names as easily as it can speak English ones.

In reply to Re^4: dos path accents by Jim
in thread dos path accents by fanticla

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