in reply to Re^2: How to stat a file with a Unicode (UTF16-LE) filename in Windows?
in thread How to stat a file with a Unicode (UTF16-LE) filename in Windows?

Also, in Windows, internally, which encoding is used for filenames? UTF16-le or UCS-2le?

It is my tenuous understanding that the difference between UTF-16 and UCS-2 is UTF-16 can address characters above 64K and UCS-2 cannot. I haven't seen any support for multi-word characters in Windows, so I believe it's UCS-2. In practice, it doesn't matter which one you use.

I did not use Symbol, and gensym()

The documentation for OsFHandleOpen clearly defines what is acceptable, and an undefined lexical isn't one one of those.

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Re^4: How to stat a file with a Unicode (UTF16-LE) filename in Windows?
by alanhaggai (Novice) on Feb 06, 2009 at 06:38 UTC
    Oh I see. Thank you.