Dear Monks,

Probably my question has been already answered, but I didn't find any solution.

Here is the problem: Working on a Windows machine, how can I open a file if its path has characters with accents? I get the path using getOpenFile. Here is what I do.

sub convert_ansi_to_utf {

my $types = [ ['Text', '.txt'],
              ['All Files',   '*'],];
my $filename= $frame_kwic_setup->getOpenFile(-filetypes => $types);

    open(F, "<:encoding(iso-8859-1)", "$filename") or die $!;
    open(G, ">:utf8",                 "$filename.utf.txt") or die $!;
    while (<F>) { print G }
close (F);
close (G);

}

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It is a simple subrutine to convert a textfile from ANSI to UTF-8. If the path is for example:

C:\Documents and Settings\AA\Documents\Data\Examples\Università\AS 2010\text.txt

I get an error, file could not be found. Anyone has an Idea how to solve the problem? Thanks. C.

In reply to dos path accents by fanticla

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