Steve Hay wrote:
John E. Malmberg wrote:
And I am wondering if that instead of "tovmsspec()" and
"tounixspec()", or vmsify() and unixify() it would be better to have
generic macros or Perl routines of "to_hostspec()",
"to_hostspec_short()", and "to_perlspec()".
Generic (not VMS specific) support for Unicode filenames is something
that I've wanted previously on Win32, e.g. see the thread starting here:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.unicode/2553
and especially:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.unicode/2559
Yes, it seems that the major difference between what is needed for Win32
and what is needed for OpenVMS do is that OpenVMS needs the filenames
converted from UTF-8 to host specific format and Win32 needs to use a
different routine name call for the Unicode filename.
A bit of commonality is that both will effectively need wrappers around
any C library routine that uses filenames. Currently vms.c already
contains a few of these wrappers.
-John
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