but it is far from trivial to implement that without introducing evil hacks ... I guess there would be opposition from non-windows folks,

You are correct. And in common with many other caveats of using Perl on Win32, if you chose to follow through on this, you are in for a very tough time.

It is unfortunately the case that the innate, knee-jerk, anti-MS reaction to anything that might improve the lot of the win32-based Perl user will be negative. Unless you can demonstrate that there is absolutely no negative impact of your code upon *any other OS user*, anywhere, anytime...your patch is likely to be rejected.

Of course, there will likely be a few attempts by *nix users to refute this allegation. They will say that patches from win32 users are treated exactly the same as those from *nix users, and only rejected if they are not complete and thorough. They will, if pushed, explain the ridiculously high rejection rate as a symptom that win32 users and programmers are simply too stupid to produce high quality patches.

You may even get a rejection of this thesis from the 2 tame win32 developers that have been accepted into the fold. You know. Like the token black man in US films from the 1960s through the 1980s. Do not be fooled or appeased.

Or else, they will simply stay silent and hope that nobody notices.

Good luck.

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In reply to Re^2: unicode version of readdir by BrowserUk
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