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Re: guile can't find a chinese named file
From: |
Marko Rauhamaa |
Subject: |
Re: guile can't find a chinese named file |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Feb 2017 23:07:20 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Mike Gran <address@hidden>:
> The great difficulty with the UTF-8 Guile prototype was the need to
> interrogate every string access or index to decide if it was a
> codepoint index or a byte index.
Unicode strings are a special data type that have relatively little
practical use. Byte strings are much more fundamental. C's "char *" is
perfect.
In particular, filenames are *not*, nor can they be mapped to, Unicode
strings in Linux.
Marko
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