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Re: guile can't find a chinese named file


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: guile can't find a chinese named file
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:43:34 +0100
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Marko Rauhamaa <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>
>> Marko Rauhamaa <address@hidden> writes:
>>> That operation fails if you try to translate the snippets to strings
>>> before concatenation. Such concatenation operations are commonplace
>>> when dealing with filenames (eg, split(1)).
>>
>> split(1) does not "deal with filenames" when splitting, but the
>> individual files may be split inside of UTF-8 sequences.  See above.
>
> You probably cannot produce valid UTF-8 out of invalid UTF-8 snippets
> with split(1). However split(1) does form filenames out of its arguments
> by concatenation:
>
>     split --additional-suffix=suffix file prefix
>
> produces these kinds of filenames:
>
>     <prefix><ordinal><suffix>

I don't really get your point here.  Why would you start with invalid
UTF-8 sequences in the filenames?

-- 
David Kastrup



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