Re: guile can't find a chinese named file

[Marko Rauhamaa]

David Kastrup <address@hidden>:

> Marko Rauhamaa <address@hidden> writes:
>> That operation fails if you try to translate the snippets to strings
>> before concatenation. Such concatenation operations are commonplace
>> when dealing with filenames (eg, split(1)).
>
> split(1) does not "deal with filenames" when splitting, but the
> individual files may be split inside of UTF-8 sequences.  See above.

You probably cannot produce valid UTF-8 out of invalid UTF-8 snippets
with split(1). However split(1) does form filenames out of its arguments
by concatenation:

    split --additional-suffix=suffix file prefix

produces these kinds of filenames:

    <prefix><ordinal><suffix>


Marko