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.)
next prev parent 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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