From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: 26353@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26353: VFS name encoding
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:28:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9u82bhg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170601125743.6b13cd94@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Thu, 1 Jun 2017 12:57:43 +0200")
Hi Danny,
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
>> The problem of how to deal with file name encoding has been
>> discussed on the Guile side so hopefully the next release in the 2.2
>> series will have a solution for this.
>
> For what it's worth, I think the sane solution is the Plan 9 solution:
> Just represent file names as bytevectors. Programs which don't care
> about the actual name - for example programs that just want to do
> (for-each unlink (scandir (string->utf8 "."))) or something - have no
> reason to care about the encoding at all. And then use UTF-8 encoding
> everywhere (for the file names, also for everything else) throughout
> the operating system for the tools that do care.
FWIW the problem has been discussed at length in Guile land, although I
don’t think anyone has come up with a complete solution yet.
I think it’s natural to represent file names as strings, but we made a
mistake in 2.0 when we assumed we’d basically always be able to decode
file names using the current locale “on sane systems”. So now we need a
way to represent file names that cannot be decoded while preserving
backward compatibility.
To be continued!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-01 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-03 18:56 bug#26353: GuixSD /tmp cleaner fails to clean when Umlauts like "ä" are used in filenames Danny Milosavljevic
2017-04-12 13:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-22 23:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-23 0:14 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-01 14:51 ` bug#26353: TeX Live Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-01 15:11 ` Marius Bakke
2017-05-01 21:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-01 11:17 ` ng0
2017-05-02 6:31 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-02 8:32 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-02 15:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-03 19:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-23 2:03 ` bug#26353: GuixSD /tmp cleaner fails to clean when Umlauts like "ä" are used in filenames Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-01 20:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-01 10:57 ` bug#26353: VFS name encoding Danny Milosavljevic
2017-06-01 11:28 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-12-14 22:28 ` bug#26353: GuixSD /tmp cleaner fails to clean when Umlauts like "ä" are used in filenames Danny Milosavljevic
2017-12-15 10:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-09 9:30 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-06-20 8:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-19 20:17 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-06-19 20:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
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