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Re: guile can't find a chinese named file


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: guile can't find a chinese named file
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 05:31:28 +0200

> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:42:38 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Mike Gran <address@hidden>
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> 
> Earlier in the 2.0.x release series, Guile had a hack where it started
> up in a Latin-1 encoding, which would be capable of storing any
> 8-bit string of bytes, even if they weren't Latin-1.

Latin-1 has holes in the 0..255 range, so it isn't very appropriate in
this situation.

> And what was supposed to happen after setlocale was called?

What Emacs does is explicitly decode any variable produced until that
moment that is known to hold unibyte strings.

> As an aside, GTK and GLIB based applications often use a method where
> you may need to set the environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING
> if your filename encoding is different from your locale encoding.
> GTK/GLIB also likes to store strings internally as UTF-8, and will
> convert to UTF-8 from either the locale or the G_FILENAME_ENCODING-
> specified encoding.

Emacs stores all environment variables in their original
locale-specific encoding, as unibyte strings, and only decodes them
when they are actually used or handed to Lisp.



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