From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris Vine Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Filename encoding Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:52:46 +0000 Message-ID: <20140115125246.53fc72c7@bother.homenet> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389790382 6485 80.91.229.3 (15 Jan 2014 12:53:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:53:02 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 15 13:53:05 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Pxw-00046s-Ru for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:53:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54348 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Pxw-0004Kg-HS for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:53:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34756) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Pxi-0004Iu-2O for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:52:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Pxa-00060P-OX for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:52:49 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpout2.wanadoo.co.uk ([80.12.242.42]:33973 helo=smtpout.wanadoo.co.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Pxa-0005zt-I5 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:52:42 -0500 Original-Received: from bother.homenet ([95.146.112.102]) by mwinf5d29 with ME id ECsf1n00X2Ccjlb03CsfHt; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:52:40 +0100 Original-Received: from bother.homenet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bother.homenet (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAAFD88504 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:52:46 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2 (GTK+ 2.24.22; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.12.242.42 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:10997 Archived-At: Hi, A number of guile's scheme procedures look-up or reference files on a file system (open-file, load and so forth). How does guile translate filenames from its internal string representation (ISO-8859-1/UTF-32) to narrow string filename encoding when looking up the file? Does it assume filenames are in locale encoding (not particularly safe on networked file systems) or does it provide a fluid for this? (glib caters for this with the G_FILENAME_ENCODING environmental variable.) Chris