Re: guile can't find a chinese named file

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

>> From: Marko Rauhamaa <address@hidden>
>> You could leave character strings to application libraries for
>> newsreaders, IRC clients etc, and have a separate byte string data
>> type for the system interface.
>
> I don't know what you mean by "application libraries", but if that's
> something applications should provide, and Guile shouldn't, then I
> disagree: application writers will generally not know enough to
> implement this non-trivial functionality.

Guile can provide those.

I don't know if I ever had a need for them. In my decades of
programming, I don't remember ever needing anything but byte strings.

>> If emacs managed to restore a binary/text unification (and infect Guile
>> in the process), that would be quite an accomplishment.
>
> I don't understand what "binary/text unification" means, sorry.

I say filenames are byte strings. Guile says they are character strings.
You are saying they are both at once.


Marko