Re: guile can't find a chinese named file

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: Marko Rauhamaa <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 21:52:48 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Yes, to be viable in real-life situation, Guile needs to support
> > character strings with occasional embedded raw bytes that cannot be
> > interpreted as characters.
> 
> They can be interpreted as "characters", just not inside the _Unicode_
> character range.

Yes.  Emacs considers them to belong to some imaginary character set,
called "eight-bit".  My point is, those are not human-readable
characters.