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On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:14 PM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote: > Reini, on Win32 filenames are stored internally as UTF-16. What affect > does your patch proposal have on opening files with widecharacters in > them? (Widecharacters as you know could easily contain nuls). Perl uses legacy interfaces on Windows (that is, it accesses the filesystem using 8-bit interfaces, the encoding is system-defined but tends to be latin-1, which saves our ass most of the time). I'd consider this our number one Windows bug (because it screws up badly when trying to open files with Unicode in their names), but fixing this will be non-trivial, and few people have the appropriate Windows knowledge anyway. LeonThread Previous | Thread Next