Dear monks

If there is one thing I really hate is the buzz about unicode + Perl in Windows. Way too complicated, for me at least. Now I am trying to copy 1 to 1 a directory (with subfolders and files) to another location. Directory and/or files may contain unicode names (at least this is what I suppose: üäö, cyrillc, and so on). I am failing. I cannot install Win32::Unicode.

I tried:

use File::Copy::Recursive qw(dircopy);
dircopy($from,$to) or "Move $from -> $to failed: $!";

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If in my folder structure there is a file called üüü.txt it just fails (no error message) i.e. it skips the file. What alternative on Windows would you suggest?

In reply to Copy Unicode Directory Recursively by Anonymous Monk

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