From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile can't find a chinese named file Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 08:32:35 +0200 Message-ID: <83efyxxr7g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878tpsqtzl.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <837f4qzo31.fsf@gnu.org> <87h93u4q5e.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <831suyzm11.fsf@gnu.org> <83zihmy6wb.fsf@gnu.org> <87wpcq38sa.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87efyy4k4c.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87mvdmv3kg.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <8760ka4drd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h93uv1kl.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <871suy4cha.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <877f4qv0a8.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87wpcq2w58.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <871suyuyby.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <83tw7uxg1o.fsf@gnu.org> <87efyyt7jb.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <83o9y2xc3w.fsf@gnu.org> <87o9y2yo9k.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <83h93ux9br.fsf@gnu.org> <87efyyyln3.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <83fujdyk0y.fsf@gnu.org> <87r32xoo2n.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1487313169 4897 195.159.176.226 (17 Feb 2017 06:32:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 06:32:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 17 07:32:43 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 1cec5z-0000i5-3i for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2017 07:32:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51764 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cec63-00014i-Bk for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2017 01:32:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43883) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cec5V-00014d-JG for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2017 01:32:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cec5R-0005W6-MB for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2017 01:32:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38265) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cec5R-0005W1-JE; Fri, 17 Feb 2017 01:32:09 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3091 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cec5Q-00040u-Eh; Fri, 17 Feb 2017 01:32:08 -0500 In-reply-to: <87r32xoo2n.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Thu, 16 Feb 2017 21:52:48 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:13277 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Cc: Marko Rauhamaa , guile-user@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 21:52:48 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Yes, to be viable in real-life situation, Guile needs to support > > character strings with occasional embedded raw bytes that cannot be > > interpreted as characters. > > They can be interpreted as "characters", just not inside the _Unicode_ > character range. Yes. Emacs considers them to belong to some imaginary character set, called "eight-bit". My point is, those are not human-readable characters.