From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mike Gran Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile can't find a chinese named file Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:52:01 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <191859705.4469709.1487109121157@mail.yahoo.com> References: <874m0gd3z4.fsf@gnu.org> <87wpdc8rx7.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87poj4r04c.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k29c8q3b.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87h94gqz34.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87fuk0ctve.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <878tpsqtzl.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87zii8bcdw.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87y3xspcux.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <578885360.4452806.1487105647708@mail.yahoo.com> <87r330cwhj.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Reply-To: Mike Gran NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1487109289 10244 195.159.176.226 (14 Feb 2017 21:54:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:54:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , Guile User To: Marko Rauhamaa Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 14 22:54:41 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cdl3Y-00029Y-PV for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 22:54:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37371 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdl3e-000816-6E for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:54:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdl3F-00080o-Um for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:54:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdl3B-000284-4v for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:54:22 -0500 Original-Received: from sonic314-28.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com ([66.163.189.154]:56939) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdl3B-00027o-06 for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:54:17 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1487109254; bh=sH5llTZ+XluA7n/o7FjMaj/030L8DB/tGa3pi0NB7Vg=; h=Date:From:Reply-To:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Subject:From:Subject; b=MCofKSP++2XGNXtnRFkGLEUPXYR7esABY/ObJUJvgdnu2ujTJqNIG2qVNUD7xY3Zq/0Lo1enjv3SQHM4g0+n4+mda0L8Ap1JvsS2YbllfXa3sIL9VD+fV13jBnoA7Vvl36/vAl1SDuBDUlr9yX8otisIOxC1oPp+pL4YailcuT7ZmXE5vd6uv/P5hDjjrk8Xslb4F2ZxTrHvsPxKCFmLMUHgQ/+g0wzZsouTG+uw3Hqjw3CZxrXhk1dhCP2jQTBBdhpufdkQFBsHRP0h/KAH9hjCFC2NPOvuaiGiVbwe7nfQanFwzZe9jVwYGB2Cj+EKFthZ1bwJ1XapAQgK8Ilaug== X-YMail-OSG: EmJ0d.YVRDvYSypLUft0cI8AX.dlBffOFI.x5KtXLA-- Original-Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic314.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with HTTP; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:54:14 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87r330cwhj.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 66.163.189.154 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:13206 Archived-At: On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 1:07 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: Mike Gran : > Unicode strings are a special data type that have relatively little> practical use. Byte strings are much more fundamental. C's "char *" is > perfect. Human language itself is of limited practical use except for communicating information to people that read languages that have a text representation. > In particular, filenames are *not*, nor can they be mapped to, Unicode > strings in Linux. True. Linux should follow OpenBSD and make all locales UTF-8.