Re: guile can't find a chinese named file

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

>> From: Marko Rauhamaa <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 23:04:52 +0200
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
>> 
>> > At the file system level (for NTFS volumes at least) Windows file
>> > names are always UTF-16 encoded, and Windows just "knows" that.
>> 
>> Hm, I had the impression NTFS filenames were UCS-2 (<URL:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AUTF-16/UCS-2>).
>
> What is the difference, in the context of this discussion?

It is possible to have illegal Unicode even in Windows filenames, ie,
filenames not expressible using Guile's strings.


Marko