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Re: guile can't find a chinese named file
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Marko Rauhamaa |
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Re: guile can't find a chinese named file |
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Wed, 15 Feb 2017 09:15:26 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Chris Vine <address@hidden>:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:52:01 +0000 (UTC)
> Mike Gran <address@hidden> wrote:
>> True. Linux should follow OpenBSD and make all locales UTF-8.
>
> Filenames and locales are not necessarily related.
Linux *could* force that reality.
> When you access a networked file system, you get the filename encoding
> you are given, which may or may not be the same as the particular
> locale encoding on your particular machine on one particular day, and
> may or may not be a unicode encoding.
Linux *could* provide a seamless translation, or it *could* refuse to
mount filesystems that don't comply with its requirements.
> Linux is capable of treating filenames as just a null-terminated array
> of bytes with '/' as the directory separator. It is encoding agnostic,
> and that works just fine.
Bottom line: that's just the way things are in Linux. Programming
languages like Guile should not try to create another abstraction layer
on top of it.
Marko
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Linas Vepstas, 2017/02/14
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Linas Vepstas, 2017/02/14
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Mike Gran, 2017/02/14
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Marko Rauhamaa, 2017/02/14
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Mike Gran, 2017/02/14
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Marko Rauhamaa, 2017/02/14
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Chris Vine, 2017/02/14
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file,
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- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, tomas, 2017/02/15
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, David Kastrup, 2017/02/15
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, tomas, 2017/02/15
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/02/15
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, tomas, 2017/02/15
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/02/15
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Marko Rauhamaa, 2017/02/15
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, David Kastrup, 2017/02/15
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Chris Vine, 2017/02/15
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, tomas, 2017/02/15