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On Fri Jun 15 07:13:34 2012, kartlee05 wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On Fri Jun 15 00:57:16 2012, shay wrote: > > On Thu Jun 14 09:20:33 2012, kartlee05 wrote: > > > The revised patch is attached now. Please take a look. > > > > > > > Thanks, your patch is now applied as commit 4f46e52b00. > > Thanks for applying this change. Will this be in 5.17? BTW, do you want > me to take a look and suggest changes that we would need to fully > support wide version for win32? > The change will indeed be in 5.17.1, due out in a couple of days. Support for wide api calls on Win32 was actually removed some time ago (5.8.1) since it was not working correctly and it was deemed, IIRC, that it would be more worthwhile to address the wider issue of supporting Unicode in any filesystems that support it rather than fixing the broken support for just Windows NTFS, hence the items in Porting/todo.pod about "Unicode in Filenames", "Unicode in %ENV" and "Unicode and glob()". For sure, the solution on Windows must involve the wide apis, but what we really need first is a framework for hooking those calls into as described in the item "Virtualize operating system access" in Porting/todo.pod. --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: resolved https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=113536Thread Previous | Thread Next