Re^2: Directory operations and Unicode

The problem is that Win32 seems to be the only platform that offers an Unicode-aware file system API.

And as far as I know, all perls compiled for Windows still use the "ANSI" API to access the file system (i.e. CreateFileA instead of CreateFileW). Completely switching Perl to use the "wide" API may have "interesting" side effects. A very obvious one would be readdir returning Unicode strings instead of byte strings. Will existing code be able to handle that?

Alexander

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Re^3: Directory operations and Unicode by moritz (Cardinal) on Nov 02, 2011 at 11:16 UTC
And even if you make the wide character API only available with a pragma, you still need separate calling code for Windows and Unix, which was mostly my point. Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply]