Howdie,

In the end, the solution to my problem was to use an internal Perl command rather than a system call to a shell command as suggested by someone else in this thread.
File::Find replaced 'dir' nicely.

However, as with glob, File::Find would print funny characters instead of the proper accented characters...
The trick is then to use Win32::Console and add Win32::Console::OutputCP(1252); somewhere in your code.
This formats output to the Win32 console to code page 1252 which seems to be the correct type.

Thanks for the helpful suggestions.

Schlika.

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