Foreign characters in file name - can't open()

From: P (szpara_ga_at_tlen.pl)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: 30 Jan 2005 23:49:17 -0800

Hi,

I use File::Find to go through some directories and grab
files with a .log extension. I then open() each of these logs
and do some processing on them. The mechanism itself works as
expected, but I run into trouble when a log's file name has
foreign characters in it (like German umlauts, for example).
So in this snippet:

find ( \&process(), '/starting/path' );

sub process {
return unless /\.log$/;

open ( LOG, $_ ) or die $!;

# go on to process file
}

open() refuses to open files with umaluts in the name (claiming
"File not found", even though the file is present).

I thought that "use utf8" might solve the problem, but it
seems that it's used to allow foreign characters in the _script_,
but it has no effect whatsoever on the script's _input_. Can
someone please suggest how to get my script to read those pesky
foreign character files?

Thank you. 

-- 
Jenny

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