Re^3: Directory operations and Unicode

[afoken]

in reply to Re^2: Directory operations and Unicode
in thread Directory operations and Unicode

When using Win32::COM I subsequently use the OS COM facilities, hence I bypass any Wide APIs, call the Scripting.FileSystemObject and access the filesystem in UTF

No. You don't bypass the Wide APIs, you wrap them using a ridiculously large stack of other APIs. After uselessly burning a lot of CPU cycles, the Scripting.FileSystemObject finally ends calling the Wide APIs.

Alexander

[nikosv]

hence I bypass any Wide APIs

in the sense that I don't have to deal or think about them them

you wrap them using a ridiculously large stack of other APIs. After uselessly burning a lot of CPU cycles

might be true but it gets the job done. what is your suggestion of doing it otherwise ?

[afoken]

what is your suggestion of doing it otherwise ?

Using the "wide" API directly, of course. As long as Perl is compiled as an ANSI application, the only way to do so is to write a module, either using XS or Win32::API. Perl can handle Unicode, the only annoyance is that Perl currently uses a different encoding than Windows, so each and every wrapper function that passes strings from and to Windows needs to convert the strings. DBD::ODBC is an example for this; compiled on Windows, it prefers the "wide" API for ODBC, unless explicitly disabled.

Alexander