Khariton has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

How I can get information about filesystem codepage in Win32?
For example, in Windows with cyrylic MUI, system use cp1251 codepage for filesystem.
For working with international file- and pathnames I need know about codepage of filesystem.
My program use UTF-8 for internal working(Tk and other...) and I must encode names from filesystem codepage to internal UTF-8. I use utf-8 in Linux , but in Win32 I must using a lot of codepages for work with international filenames...

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Re: Win32 FileSystem codepage
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 06, 2010 at 20:37 UTC

    • Windows:

      You can obtain the ANSI code page using GetACP. It's trivial to write Win32::API glue for that function.

      For existing files, you can use Win32::GetANSIPathName.

    • Unix:

      open's ":locale" uses the following to determine the appropriate encoding: 

      require encoding;
$locale_encoding = encoding::_get_locale_encoding();

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    I don't know if anyone got around to making this usable.

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Re: Win32 FileSystem codepage
by anonymized user 468275 (Curate) on Dec 09, 2010 at 00:37 UTC
    You could use Win32::CodePage and/or Win32::Locale

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