Re: [perl #63184] mkdir with non-ASCII characters

* FARKAS Máté <perlbug-followup@perl.org> [2009-02-13 12:00]:
> 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.

This is not a bug. There are too many variables for Perl to be
able to automatically encode filenames correctly, and that’s
assuming that strings carried any information about their
character set, which they do not.

(It is more feasible to DTRT on Windows than on Unix, I think,
but you can really only help the programmer if you avert your
eyes from a bunch of edge cases and accept that people who run
into them as collateral damage.)

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

• [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