Re: Converting East Asian strings

Another solution would be to transliterate the filenames into good 'ole' plain ASCII with Text::Unidecode. You would loose the exact filename, but it would give you a valid filename.

If you keep a table somewhere in a database for translating between the original name and the transliterated file name, your web-site can still show the original name (and retrieve the file with its transliterated filename).

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Re^2: Converting East Asian strings by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 14, 2009 at 06:05 UTC
Good idea, but I believe the problem the OP is having is determining the encoding of the file name. See Re^4: Saving file name with Chinese characters. Without that bit of information, Text::Unidecode can't be used any more than `CreateFileW`.	[reply] [d/l]