On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Dave Hayes <d...@jetcafe.org> wrote: > What happens if the file name is not proper utf-8 but can be accessed > by an open() call despite this?
I'm guessing that Perl is just passing along the bytes unfiltered to FreeBSD's open() system call, and it looks like FreeBSD's open() call is forgiving of improperly encoded UTF-8 for filenames. However, since your byte string is not valid UTF-8, it's causing Glib to complain. Thanks, Brian _______________________________________________ gtk-perl-list mailing list gtk-perl-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list