rename not working on files with accents in names

[Tom Bates]

ActiveState perl 5.8.0 build 806 on Windows 2000 Pro...

The statement:
rename $src, $dst;
returns an error when $src is:
Tecatitlán.txt
If I remove the accented character, the rename operation succeeds.

I tried using File::Copy's move operation as well as setting
${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS} to 1. Neither works.

Any suggestions?
TIA
tbone

 

[Chris Mattern]

ActiveState perl 5.8.0 build 806 on Windows 2000 Pro...

The statement:
rename $src, $dst;
returns an error when $src is:
Tecatitlán.txt
If I remove the accented character, the rename operation succeeds.

I tried using File::Copy's move operation as well as setting
${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS} to 1. Neither works.

Any suggestions?

Print out $! to have it tell you what the error is. The obvious
one that occurs to me is that Perl doesn't think you have a file
named Tecatitlán.txt because Perl and the OS aren't using the
same character encoding scheme.

TIA
tbone

--
Christopher Mattern

"Which one you figure tracked us?"
"The ugly one, sir."
"...Could you be more specific?"

 

[Tad McClellan]

The statement:
rename $src, $dst;
returns an error when $src is:
Tecatitlán.txt

Any suggestions?

I suggest sharing the text of the error message!

 

[Tom Bates]

Thanks for reminding me about being able to see the actual error info
(I referred to the Perl help pages for the available error variables).
After the rename fails:

$! == "No such file or directory"
$^E == "The system cannot find the file specified"
$? == 0

I have many files with other accented characters that cause the same
problem, BTW. I'm just using this one to narrow down the problem.

Thanks for the help...
tbone

 

[Chris Mattern]

Thanks for reminding me about being able to see the actual error info
(I referred to the Perl help pages for the available error variables).
After the rename fails:

$! == "No such file or directory"
$^E == "The system cannot find the file specified"
$? == 0

I have many files with other accented characters that cause the same
problem, BTW. I'm just using this one to narrow down the problem.

Please don't top-post. Put your reply after the text you are replying
to. That said, I firmly believe that your problem is that your Perl
program and Windows aren't using the same character set--that is,
"á" in your Perl program and "á" on your command line aren't in fact
the same character. As I very rarely need to fool with non-ASCII
character sets, I'll leave your solutions to somebody who understands
them better.

Thanks for the help...
tbone

--
Christopher Mattern

"Which one you figure tracked us?"
"The ugly one, sir."
"...Could you be more specific?"

 

[Chris Mattern]

Please don't top-post. Put your reply after the text you are replying
to. That said, I firmly believe that your problem is that your Perl
program and Windows aren't using the same character set--that is,
"á" in your Perl program and "á" on your command line aren't in fact
the same character. As I very rarely need to fool with non-ASCII
character sets, I'll leave your solutions to somebody who understands
them better.

It occurs to me that there is a simple test for this. Have your
Perl program create "Tecatitlán.txt". Then look at the file
in Windows. If it has a weird character instead of "á", then
that's your problem.

--
Christopher Mattern

"Which one you figure tracked us?"
"The ugly one, sir."
"...Could you be more specific?"