Hello again,

Sorry for the lack of details in my question. I am running on WinXP with ActivePerl 5.10.0 build 1004. What I'm doing in my program is to let the user specify a file path using an open dialog and then I try to open the file. The code is appended below.

$data_file = Tkx::tk___getOpenFile(-parent => $mw, -filetypes => [['Da
+ta file', '.txt']],-initialdir => "$path\\work\\");
open(DATA_FILE, $data_file);
@data = <DATA_FILE>;
close(DATA_FILE);
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When I do this for a file path containing special characters (for example å,ä and ö, surely more characters will cause problems) the open command failes. Hope this gives you a little more information to work with :)