From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Filename encoding
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:03:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738koaxkm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ha9437al.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:00:18 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> skribis:
>> 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'.
So in practice, given that Guile uses the POSIX interfaces, the
assumption that file names are in the locale encoding is valid on
Windows.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-16 13:03 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
2014-01-16 13:03 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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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