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in thread Weird encoding after grabing filenames

When I visited your web page (http://tech-nikos.gr/cgi-bin/test.pl), I was able to get a sensible display by telling my browser to treat the page as iso-8859-7 (greek). But I gather you want the text to be in utf8, which I think would be a good idea.

As you follow moritz's good advice, you have to respect the docs regarding Encode::from_to(). Here's an easy way to do the required loop in a single line of code: 

Encode::from_to($_, 'ISO-8859-7', 'utf8') for (@menu_files);

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The reason why the path strings are showing up fine is because they are just plain ascii characters; it's only the file names that are non-ascii, and if the web server and browser don't agree on what the encoding is for those non-ascii characters, it's just noise.

(updated to fix grammar in first sentence)

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Re^4: Weird encoding after grabing filenames
by Nik (Initiate) on Jun 17, 2009 at 09:49 UTC
    Thank you very much that was waht i needed.

    Allow me to ask this: Why only the path strings were plain ascii chars and the filenames were non-ascii which lead me to the extra use of Encode::from_to() to show it properly?

    Does it has to do with the way(type of encoding) Vista encoded its filenames? And if this is the case here why encode the folders differently?
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      Because some characters are encoded the same in both ISO-8859-7 and UTF-8. So even though you program was buggy, you still happened to get some correct output.

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        But the data that actually got prined correctly weren't greek characters. They were data composed of english letters like "/home/nikos/public_html/data/text".
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