On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:31:15 -0500
"Ed Batutis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> $newdir = "kanji_here_\x89\x5C";
> mkdir $newdir;
>
> The above works the way I'd expect, although
>
> print (-d $newdir ? 'yes' : 'no');
>
> prints 'no' - oops a character handling bug! The second byte of the kanji is
> a backslash, which confuses Perl, apparently. "-d" really ought to assume
> the user knows what he is doing and do character-handling based on the
> current file system encoding setting (LC_CTYPE or the equivalent).
Try this.
print (-d "$newdir\\" ? 'yes' : 'no');
I had talked on this "problem" (well, I don't know whether Perl
supports multibyte file/path names or not.) in a Japanese Perlers'
mail list.
http://www.freeml.com/message/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/0004467 (in Japanese)
Here is a brief summary (in Japanese).
http://homepage1.nifty.com/nomenclator/perl/shiftjis.htm#file
Regards,
SADAHIRO Tomoyuki
