[perl #63184] mkdir with non-ASCII characters

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This is a bug report for perl from fmate144@gmail.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.36 running under perl 5.10.0.

On Windows Vista with Perl 5.10.0 if I would like create a directory with
non-ASCII characters, I must convert the directory name into a local 
encoding.

So this
    mkdir 'test áé űő';
creates a directory with (ugly) utf-8 characters, and only
    mkdir encode('windows-1250','test áé űő');
or
    mkdir encode('iso-8859-2','test áé űő');
works well.

I use hungarian Windows, but this way is not portable, because (for
example) on Japanese windows I can not use this encodings.
Someone else have found this bug, see:
http://bits.6w9.org/?p=444

I use 'use utf8;' or I have directory names from a database…

Thank you for reading my report, I wait for your response!

Best Regards,
Máté from Hungary.


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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=medium
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Site configuration information for perl 5.10.0:

Configured by SYSTEM at Thu Jan 10 11:00:30 2008.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=5.00, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    uname=''
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -GF -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 
-D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE 
-DPRIVLIB_LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS 
-DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX',
    optimize='-MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='12.00.8804', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64', 
lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:ref,icf  
-libpath:"C:\Programs\Perl\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86'
    libpth=\lib
    libs=  oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib  
comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib  
netapi32.lib uuid.lib ws2_32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib  version.lib 
odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
    perllibs=  oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib 
winspool.lib  comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib 
oleaut32.lib  netapi32.lib uuid.lib ws2_32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib  
version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
    libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=perl510.lib
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug 
-opt:ref,icf  -libpath:"C:\Programs\Perl\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86'

Locally applied patches:
    ACTIVEPERL_LOCAL_PATCHES_ENTRY
    32809 Load 'loadable object' with non-default file extension
    32728 64-bit fix for Time::Local

---
@INC for perl 5.10.0:
    c:/Programs/Perl/site/lib
    c:/Programs/Perl/lib
    .

---
Environment for perl 5.10.0:
    HOME (unset)
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=C:\Program Files\PC Connectivity 
Solution\;C:\Programs\GNAT\bin;C:\Programs\GNAT2\bin;C:\Programs\MiKTeX\miktex\bin;C:\Program 
Files\PHP\;C:\Programs\Perl\site\bin;C:\Programs\Perl\bin;c:\program 
files\imagemagick;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Program 
Files\Subversion\bin;C:\Program Files\Common 
Files\GTK\2.0\bin;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Program 
Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;C:\Program 
Files\GTK2-Runtime\lib;C:\Program Files\CVSNT\
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL (unset)

• [perl #63184] mkdir with non-ASCII characters by FARKAS Máté
• Re: [perl #63184] mkdir with non-ASCII characters by Aristotle Pagaltzis
• Re: [perl #63184] mkdir with non-ASCII characters by Eric Brine
• Re: [perl #63184] mkdir with non-ASCII characters by Farkas Máté
• Re: [perl #63184] mkdir with non-ASCII characters by Eric Brine