perl-unicode

Re: Unicode filenames on Windows with Perl >= 5.8.2

2004-06-22 21:30:06
Jan Dubois wrote:

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Steve Hay wrote:

I must confess that 2 doesn't really bother me since the "9x" type
systems are now a thing of the past (XP onwards are all "NT" type
systems, even XP Home Edition).

While I also wish that Win 9x would just cease to exist, I don't think
any core Perl patches would be accepted if they would render Perl
inoperable on those systems. You would have to provide at least a
fallback solution, even if it means creating separate binaries for "9x"
and "NT" Windows systems.

 JFYI, if using MSLU is problematic (for some reason), we may consider

http://libunicows.sourceforge.net/

It's released under MIT license.

 Jungshik