Re^4: Can't Find File When Non-ASCII Letters Appear in Path

I had never heard of that. Worst still, I have never worked with utf-16. This is my first attempt:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Unicode::String qw(utf8 latin1 utf16);

my $u = utf8("C:\\&#913;&#957;&#964;&#943;&#947;&#961;&#945;&#966;&#95
+9;\\VOLINFO.TXT");
my $file = $u->utf16;

open FILE, $file or die "can't open $file: $!";
while (<FILE>) {
}
close FILE;
[download]

I only got this incomplete reaction from activeperl: can't open

Comment on Re^4: Can't Find File When Non-ASCII Letters Appear in Path Select or Download Code

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^5: Can't Find File When Non-ASCII Letters Appear in Path by samtregar (Abbot) on Apr 16, 2007 at 19:46 UTC
You're not really using HTML entities, right? So what are you using? If you're trying to enter the characters in a text editor that might not work. Try using Perl escapes - like "\x080" - to construct your string. Also, did you try my readdir() suggestion? I still think it could help... -sam	[reply]
Re^6: Can't Find File When Non-ASCII Letters Appear in Path by emav (Pilgrim) on Apr 16, 2007 at 20:22 UTC
Thanks again for the reply, Sam. Of course, I'm not using html entities. ;-) Yes, I tried your readdir() suggestion but the problem is that as non-ASCII characters appear in the path, I get a similar error message (directory not found, etc).	[reply]
Re^7: Can't Find File When Non-ASCII Letters Appear in Path by samtregar (Abbot) on Apr 17, 2007 at 03:41 UTC
Work your way back up the path. Surely there's a directory on your filesystem you can read which contains non-ASCII entries, even if it's C:\! -sam	[reply]