Re: guile can't find a chinese named file

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andy Wingo <address@hidden>
> Cc: Chris Vine <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 21:58:00 +0100
> 
> On Wed 15 Feb 2017 18:07, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > the [Emacs] MS-Windows port pretends towards Emacs internals that file
> > names are encoded in UTF-8, and shadows relevant system APIs that
> > accept or return file names, like fopen, opendir/readdir, stat,
> > etc. with its own versions that convert UTF-8 to and from UTF-16
> > before calling the real OS APIs.
> >
> > Once again, just use that experience, and maybe even some
> > infrastructure code.
> 
> FWIW we are up for good suggestions.  It's clear that file names (and
> command line arguments and environment variables) aren't handled ideally
> in Guile as they aren't fundamentally strings of characters in any
> particular encoding, and hence this class of bug.

Let me know what kind of suggestions would help.  E.g., if you need a
more detailed descriptions of how Emacs goes about these issues, I can
do that (guile-devel is probably a better place for that).