Well after a few days of research here is what I came up with. Thanks for all of your help and pointing me in the right direction. The main point that I learned was to get unicode to work in filenames and paths you need to get platform specific. It would be great if that was not the case. Here is the code that I got working. It is running on Windows XP with Perl 5.8.8 (from Active State). Working script: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use Win32API::File qw( :ALL );
use utf8;
use Encode;

#Notice the \0 at the end of the file name.  Necessary but I don't kno
+w why.
my $win32_handle = Win32API::File::CreateFileW(Encode::encode("UTF-16L
+E", "C:\\test\\" . "

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" . "\\test.txt\0"), FILE_READ_DATA, 0, [], OPEN_EXISTING, 0, []);

my $perl_handle = 0;

#This translates the win32 file handle to a Perl file handle
Win32API::File::OsFHandleOpen($perl_handle, $win32_handle, "r");

print <$perl_handle>;

if ($^E) 
{
    print "Error: " . $^E
}

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In reply to Re^2: Problems Opening file with Perl where path has UTF8 by lustyx
in thread Problems Opening file with Perl where path has UTF8 by lustyx

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