SPUG: unicode filename problems
jlb
jlb at io.com
Thu Mar 23 14:58:27 PST 2006
I'm trying to create filenames that contain some particular unicode
characters. The code I've written to do so work fine on the FreeBSD and
Linux machine I'm using, but doesn't work the same way under ActiveState
Perl.
I'm not all that well-versed in unicode-related issues, and I've tried
looking through the various perl encoding docs but haven't seen anything
promising. I may just be missing some simple obvious step that I simply
don't know about.
This code is basically what I'm doing, and it works fine everywhere but
windows.
perl -e 'open (FILE, ">".pack("U", 0x2014)) || die "$!";'
Everywhere but windows this is creating a file named with the value of
0xe28094, on windows I end up with something like 0xc3a2e282ace2809d.
I thought maybe it was an actual windows issue, but I was able to create
the expected filenames using a similar bit of code in ActiveState python.
>>> fh = open(u"\u2014", 'w')
I was also able to create the files on Linux, then access them over Samba
from the windows machine and make copies of the files, which maintained
the correct names.
Any ideas where I might be going wrong?
I've tried playing around with the Encode module but it didn't seem to
really get me anywhere, and I'm not sure it's really the answer.
The linux machine is using 5.8.0, the FreeBSD machine is using 5.6.0 and
the windows machine is using ActiveState Perl 5.8.7 build 815.
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