Re: guile can't find a chinese named file

[tomas]

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On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 01:11:57PM +0000, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:41:24 +0100
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> [snip]
> > What I don't like about the fluid is that it still doesn't give you
> > an escape hatch in hard cases (your USB stick example).
> 
> The program would just have to document that any mount point must have
> a path in a character set (eg ASCII) which is compatible with the
> filename encoding used by the plug-able device in question to which the
> fluid is to be set.

Yes, but exactly that is out of the application's control :-(

> Not ideal, but in practice probably good enough for anyone using guile,
> who is likely to be sufficiently knowledgeable to understand what this
> means.

None of the solutions bandied around are ideal, I fear.

regards
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