From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile can't find a chinese named file Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:11:13 +0100 Message-ID: <871suy4cha.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <878tpsqtzl.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y3xspcux.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <578885360.4452806.1487105647708@mail.yahoo.com> <87r330cwhj.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <191859705.4469709.1487109121157@mail.yahoo.com> <20170214221914.1483ddb1@bother.homenet> <20170215091832.GA28017@tuxteam.de> <83inobz8yl.fsf@gnu.org> <20170215202056.GB3723@tuxteam.de> <83d1ejyz2e.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3x7kvwr.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <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> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1487243521 24328 195.159.176.226 (16 Feb 2017 11:12:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:12:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: Marko Rauhamaa Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 16 12:11:55 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 1ceJyX-0005OD-Jb for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:11:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45798 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ceJyb-0004M4-L9 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 06:11:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53787) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ceJy4-0004Jj-J4 for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 06:11:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ceJy1-0000rm-EA for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 06:11:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51667) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ceJy1-0000rc-Aj; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 06:11:17 -0500 Original-Received: from x2f414f4.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.20.244]:56566 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ceJy0-0003zv-HU; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 06:11:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87h93uv1kl.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> (Marko Rauhamaa's message of "Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:04:42 +0200") 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:13253 Archived-At: Marko Rauhamaa writes: > David Kastrup : > >> Marko Rauhamaa writes: >>> You probably cannot produce valid UTF-8 out of invalid UTF-8 snippets >>> with split(1). However split(1) does form filenames out of its >>> arguments by concatenation: >>> >>> split --additional-suffix=suffix file prefix >>> >>> produces these kinds of filenames: >>> >>> >> >> I don't really get your point here. Why would you start with invalid >> UTF-8 sequences in the filenames? > > There's nothing preventing such filenames from appearing on a Linux > system. They might come from a zip file with Latin-1 -encoded names, for > example. I still don't get your point. split does not use for generating file names, only for getting its contents. The generated file names are built from the and additional characters. > I have files older than UTF-8 on my Linux system. I have files encoded > in Latin-3, for example. It's still irrelevant since split does not _use_ the existing file name for constructing new file names. -- David Kastrup