Re: guile can't find a chinese named file

[Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>]

It's a bug. There have been bugs on and off with guile utf8 handling.
One of the guile-2.0 versions does almost everything right, but utf8
is semi-broken, again in 2.2 -- some things work, but various things
that used to work great are now broken (again).   I'm guessing that
guile has a weak/non-existent unit-test suite for utf8.

Open bug reports. I could even (maybe) volunteer to fix some of them,
cause I know where they are, and why they are, but would need
encouragement/help from one of the core guile devs to create
acceptable patches.

(I'm doing Chinese text processing in guile, right now, so each of
these bugs is painful to hit, and requires yet another work-around in
my code.)

--linas



On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 2:54 AM, Thomas Morley <thomasmorley65@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2016-11-27 13:16 GMT+01:00 Chaos Eternal <chaoseternal@shlug.org>:
>> Seems that UTF-8 encoded string has been converted to unicode before calling
>> `open',
>> but on filesystem the filename is utf8 string
>
> Your analysis is surely correct, but what to do?
> I expected
> guile filename_名字.scm
> to work out of the box.
>
> Am I missing something?
> Or is it a bug, worth reporting?
>
> Cheers,
>   Harm
>