Re: guile can't find a chinese named file

[Andy Wingo]

On Tue 14 Feb 2017 23:26, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> There were discussions to move to UTF-8 internally in 2.2.  As Mike
> explained, that was not really an option in 2.0 mostly due to the
> requirement to support O(1) random access.

AFAIU this requirement was relaxed in R7RS.  I think we could revisit
it; there are tradeoffs but the trade winds could blow due UTF-8-wards
in the end.  My memory of the state of things was that Mark was going to
have a look at it but he is affected by a global shortage of round tuits
:)

Andy