Yeah, it does, thanks. I don't understand how perl succeeds in converting the 8bit string in PATH_TRANSLATED to the one given in decode though... I've tested several browsers; some send utf-8, and some seem to send iso-8859-1 or iso-5589-15. The $fileAsked variable could be in any charset, really.

Oh well... I hope those internationalisation issues will solve itself in the next couple of years, not just for Perl, but for all software really.