Greetings, I'm unable to open a file using Perl on a Windows machine where the path to the file has UTF-8 characters in it. My script looks like this: 

my $strPath = "C:\\server\\htdocs\\DEVELOPMENT\\testing\\" . "一
+棵高树" . "\\test\\test.ssi";

open DATFILE, '+<' . $strPath or die("Can't open":" . $!);

my $strHeaderLine = <DATFILE>;

print $strHeaderLine;

close DATFILE;

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Everytime I try I get: Can't open:No such file or directory I've tried both 5.6 and 5.8. Any help would be great. Thanks, Justin

In reply to Problems Opening file with Perl where path has UTF8 by lustyx

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