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 11:43:34 +0100 Message-ID: <8760ka4drd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <878tpsqtzl.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87zii8bcdw.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <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> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1487241855 19920 195.159.176.226 (16 Feb 2017 10:44:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:44:15 +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 11:44:11 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 1ceJXk-0004Vs-8M for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:44:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45707 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ceJXp-0000ol-Tm for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 05:44:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48029) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ceJXJ-0000nP-Px for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 05:43:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ceJXF-0006Tj-Sr for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 05:43:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51435) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ceJXF-0006Td-PN; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 05:43:37 -0500 Original-Received: from x2f414f4.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.20.244]:56008 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ceJXF-0001gK-24; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 05:43:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87mvdmv3kg.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> (Marko Rauhamaa's message of "Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:21:35 +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:13251 Archived-At: Marko Rauhamaa writes: > David Kastrup : > >> Marko Rauhamaa writes: >>> That operation fails if you try to translate the snippets to strings >>> before concatenation. Such concatenation operations are commonplace >>> when dealing with filenames (eg, split(1)). >> >> split(1) does not "deal with filenames" when splitting, but the >> individual files may be split inside of UTF-8 sequences. See above. > > 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? -- David Kastrup