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: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 23:07:20 +0200 Message-ID: <87r330cwhj.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> <87fuk0ctve.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <878tpsqtzl.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87zii8bcdw.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87y3xspcux.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <578885360.4452806.1487105647708@mail.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1487106475 4694 195.159.176.226 (14 Feb 2017 21:07:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:07:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: David Kastrup , Guile User To: Mike Gran Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 14 22:07:51 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 1cdkKB-0000jj-VL for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 22:07:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37178 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdkKH-00059w-Lr for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:07:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41775) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdkJp-000597-Ht for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:07:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdkJo-0000Tc-Hp for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:07:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:1bc8:1a0:5384:7a2b:cbff:fe9f:e508] (port=57286 helo=pacujo.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdkJm-0000Si-TZ; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:07:23 -0500 Original-Received: from elektro.pacujo.net (192.168.1.200) by elektro.pacujo.net; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 23:07:20 +0200 Original-Received: by elektro.pacujo.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 14 Feb 2017 23:07:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: <578885360.4452806.1487105647708@mail.yahoo.com> (Mike Gran's message of "Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:54:07 +0000 (UTC)") 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:13204 Archived-At: Mike Gran : > The great difficulty with the UTF-8 Guile prototype was the need to > interrogate every string access or index to decide if it was a > codepoint index or a byte index. Unicode strings are a special data type that have relatively little practical use. Byte strings are much more fundamental. C's "char *" is perfect. In particular, filenames are *not*, nor can they be mapped to, Unicode strings in Linux. Marko