Re: guile can't find a chinese named file

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Mike Gran <address@hidden>:

> 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