Edward Batutis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Also each character when I view it via character >> listing of IME pad, it has three hex numbers. > >Seeing three hex numbers per character is a sure sign you've got utf8. You >need to convert the characters to the platform encoding before using 'open'. >In fact, I believe you have to wrap conversions around every (?) function or >operator that uses characters and deals with the system unless the >underlying OS can deal with utf8. > >=ED
NT and later can deal with Unicode - but at C level you need to make calls to special functions and pass 16-bit wide chars. There is support for this in perl, but you have to ask for it. I have not tried it myself (yet) but I think you use perl -C to enable perl to use Win32's Unicode APIs to open() etc. (Something has changed in this area for 5.8.1 and later...)
