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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Filename encoding
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:00:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ha9437al.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9ewu8n1.fsf@gnu.org>

> From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:29:06 +0100
> 
> Does anyone know of systems where the file name encoding is commonly
> different from locale encoding?  Is it the case on Windows?

Windows stores file names on disk encoded in UTF-16, but converts them
to the current codepage if you use Posix-style interfaces like 'open'
and 'rename'.  (There are parallel APIs that accept UTF-16 encoded
file names.)




  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-16  4:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-15 12:52 Filename encoding Chris Vine
2014-01-15 18:14 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-15 19:02   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 21:34     ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-16  3:46       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 19:50   ` Chris Vine
2014-01-15 21:00     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 21:42       ` Chris Vine
2014-01-16  3:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 21:47     ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-15 22:32       ` Chris Vine
2014-01-16  3:55       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 23:29     ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-16  4:00       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-01-16 13:03         ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-16 14:07           ` John Darrington
2014-01-16 16:12             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-16 16:09           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-16 15:36         ` Mark H Weaver

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