Lindsay bryce did a great job with DirPlus however using it give upto a 10% CPU hit compared to Dir alone, that said the moment you view the collection with KIX the unicode seems to get taken as a ? so the array still contains un-useable file and folder names.
I need to be able to rename the items containing unicode text to ASCII before KIX gets to read them.
The problem is HOW as thus far I have not located a scripting method capable of doing this.
If when I identify in kix such an entry a script/app could be executed to deal with it in ANO language then I should be able to get past this.