Re: Unicode filenames on Windows with Perl >= 5.8.2

Nicholas Clark <[email protected]> writes:
>On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:46:07AM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote:
>
>> I think it is possible, but it requires someone to both do the work and
>> to argue for it on P5P. Without this "champion", I don't see it
>> happening at all.
>
>Nor do I. But P5P isn't big on arguing for arguing's sake these days.
>Suggest a workable solution, volunteer to actually do it and I think
>that everyone will be happy.
>
>My only thought is should the API be full SVs, or char pointer plus utf8/not
>flag? (possibly as 1 bit in a flags word)

My gut reaction is that the char * + flag would be easier to shoe-horn
into existing code base.

>
>Nicholas Clark