Re^2: Directory operations and Unicode

When using Win32::COM I subsequently use the OS COM facilities, hence I bypass any Wide APIs, call the Scripting.FileSystemObject and access the filesystem in UTF:

Win32::OLE->Option(CP => Win32::OLE::CP_UTF8);
$obj = Win32::OLE->new('Scripting.FileSystemObject');
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and manipulate its methods, for example :

$folder = $obj->GetFolder(".");
$collection= $folder->{Files};
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If you want to keep your sanity do not start looking into the wide API's ! :)

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Re^3: Directory operations and Unicode by afoken (Chancellor) on Nov 08, 2011 at 13:44 UTC
When using Win32::COM I subsequently use the OS COM facilities, hence I bypass any Wide APIs, call the Scripting.FileSystemObject and access the filesystem in UTF No. You don't bypass the Wide APIs, you wrap them using a ridiculously large stack of other APIs. After uselessly burning a lot of CPU cycles, the Scripting.FileSystemObject finally ends calling the Wide APIs. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]
Re^4: Directory operations and Unicode by nikosv (Deacon) on Nov 09, 2011 at 05:45 UTC
hence I bypass any Wide APIs in the sense that I don't have to deal or think about them them you wrap them using a ridiculously large stack of other APIs. After uselessly burning a lot of CPU cycles might be true but it gets the job done. what is your suggestion of doing it otherwise ?	[reply]
Re^5: Directory operations and Unicode by afoken (Chancellor) on Nov 11, 2011 at 13:29 UTC
what is your suggestion of doing it otherwise ? Using the "wide" API directly, of course. As long as Perl is compiled as an ANSI application, the only way to do so is to write a module, either using XS or Win32::API. Perl can handle Unicode, the only annoyance is that Perl currently uses a different encoding than Windows, so each and every wrapper function that passes strings from and to Windows needs to convert the strings. DBD::ODBC is an example for this; compiled on Windows, it prefers the "wide" API for ODBC, unless explicitly disabled. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]