Re: guile can't find a chinese named file

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> skribis:

> guile filename_名字.scm
> ;;; Stat of /home/hermann/Desktop/filename_??.scm failed:
> ;;; ERROR: In procedure stat: No such file or directory:
> "/home/hermann/Desktop/filename_\u540d\u5b57.scm"
> Backtrace:
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>  160: 8 [catch #t #<catch-closure 55cae58fe4e0> ...]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 7 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 55cae58fe4e0>]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   66: 6 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...]
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>  432: 5 [eval # #]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> 2404: 4 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 55cae59209c0 at
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:4051:3 ()>]
> 4058: 3 [#<procedure 55cae59209c0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:4051:3 ()>]
> 1727: 2 [%start-stack load-stack ...]
> 1732: 1 [#<procedure 55cae5935db0 ()>]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 0 [primitive-load "/home/hermann/Desktop/filename_\u540d\u5b57.scm"]
>
> ERROR: In procedure primitive-load:
> ERROR: In procedure open-file: No such file or directory:
> "/home/hermann/Desktop/filename_\u540d\u5b57.scm"

In C, argv is just an array of byte sequences, but in Guile,
(command-line) returns a list of strings, not a list of bytevectors.

Guile decodes its arguments according to the encoding of the current
locale.  So if you’re in a UTF-8 locale (say, zn_CH.utf8 or en_US.utf8),
Guile assumes its command-line arguments are UTF-8-encoded and decodes
them accordingly.

In the example above, it seems that the file name encoding was different
from the locale encoding, leading to this error.

HTH!

Ludo’.