From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marko Rauhamaa Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile can't find a chinese named file Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:58:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87fuk0ctve.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> References: <874m0gd3z4.fsf@gnu.org> <87wpdc8rx7.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87poj4r04c.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k29c8q3b.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87h94gqz34.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1485799147 24214 195.159.176.226 (30 Jan 2017 17:59:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:59:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 30 18:59:02 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 1cYGEH-000633-OI for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2017 18:59:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34264 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cYGEK-0003qv-2l for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:59:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47195) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cYGDt-0003qp-5X for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:58:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cYGDs-0004vD-DU for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:58:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:1bc8:1a0:5384:7a2b:cbff:fe9f:e508] (port=57866 helo=pacujo.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cYGDn-0004qn-Vr; Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:58:32 -0500 Original-Received: from elektro.pacujo.net (192.168.1.200) by elektro.pacujo.net; Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:58:29 +0200 Original-Received: by elektro.pacujo.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:58:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87h94gqz34.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:42:07 +0100") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2001:1bc8:1a0:5384:7a2b:cbff:fe9f:e508 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:13144 Archived-At: David Kastrup : > But at any rate, this cannot easily be fixed since Guile uses libraries > for encoding/decoding that cannot deal reproducibly with improper byte > patterns. Guile's mistake was to move to Unicode strings in the operating system interface. > The problem here is that Guile cannot even deal with _properly_ > encoded UTF-8 file names on the command line. Ok. Marko