From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Filename encoding Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:00:18 +0200 Message-ID: <83ha9437al.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140115125246.53fc72c7@bother.homenet> <87bnzdun74.fsf@netris.org> <20140115195051.3272023c@bother.homenet> <87a9ewu8n1.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389844840 30924 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2014 04:00:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 04:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 16 05:00:44 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 1W3e8K-0005kQ-3G for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 05:00:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3e8J-0001be-OK for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:00:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44529) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3e85-0001ah-Hh for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:00:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3e7z-0002NI-Mu for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:00:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:58560) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3e7z-0002NC-Aj; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:00:23 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZH001006Q16100@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:00:26 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZH00LJ974PGA60@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:00:26 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87a9ewu8n1.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 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:11027 Archived-At: > From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:29:06 +0100 >=20 > Does anyone know of systems where the file name encoding is commonl= y > different from locale encoding? Is it the case on Windows? Windows stores file names on disk encoded in UTF-16, but converts the= m 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.)