Hi all,

I'm trying to create files on a Windows XP machine that hold russian language content. The content is generated with perl scripts. The problem is that when I try to give the files meaningful russian names, the filenames come out garbled.

For example:

$u = "работать" ;

$f = magic($u) ; # the magic function is what I am looking for...

open O,">$f" ;

the kind of magic I am trying results in filenames like работать.html
I've tried using encode/decode functions, but I'm obviously not doing it right.


thanks

use Encode like this:
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use utf8;
use Encode;

$u = "работать";

$f = encode("cp1251", $u);

open O, ">$f" or die "OMG!";

close O;
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or just save your source .pl file as ANSI text, it will create file without any additional charset conversions.