Re: guile can't find a chinese named file

[Mike Gran]

On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 1:07 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <address@hidden> wrote:
Mike Gran <address@hidden>:


> Unicode strings are a special data type that have relatively little> 
> practical use. Byte strings are much more fundamental. C's "char *" is
> perfect.


Human language itself is of limited practical use except for
communicating information to people that read languages that have
a text representation.

> In particular, filenames are *not*, nor can they be mapped to, Unicode

> strings in Linux.

True. Linux should follow OpenBSD and make all locales UTF-8.