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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-04-07 14:25:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-04-07 14:25:28 +0000 |
| commit | dd36d13c89140c2d9d7954b9f1de583003154c13 (patch) | |
| tree | adaef7a5e5beeb3683ba8880a94fc181ad7f00d4 /pod/perluniintro.pod | |
| parent | 525c8498a83d993a86ed1c5080d595040c6663f5 (diff) | |
| download | perl-dd36d13c89140c2d9d7954b9f1de583003154c13.tar.gz | |
There was no nice way of getting in UTF-8 filenames:
now one can use in the (new) three-arg form of readdir()
and in File::Glob import a ":utf8" to transparently accept
the filenames as Unicode. Note that only :utf8 is supported,
not fancier stuff like :encoding(foobar)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15776
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diff --git a/pod/perluniintro.pod b/pod/perluniintro.pod index dd3064f6bf..736a0e2d0a 100644 --- a/pod/perluniintro.pod +++ b/pod/perluniintro.pod @@ -407,6 +407,11 @@ If you run this code twice, the contents of the F<file> will be twice UTF-8 encoded. A C<use open ':utf8'> would have avoided the bug, or explicitly opening also the F<file> for input as UTF-8. +In some filesystems (for example Microsoft NTFS and Apple HFS+) the +filenames are in UTF-8 . By using opendir() and File::Glob you can +make readdir() and glob() to return the filenames as Unicode, see +L<perlfunc/opendir> and L<File::Glob> for details. + B<NOTE>: the C<:utf8> and C<:encoding> features work only if your Perl has been built with the new "perlio" feature. Almost all Perl 5.8 platforms do use "perlio", though: you can see whether |