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Re: guile can't find a chinese named file
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Mike Gran |
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Re: guile can't find a chinese named file |
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Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:42:38 +0000 (UTC) |
On Monday, January 30, 2017 12:00 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> Actually, the need arises even sooner. Consider how load-path is set
> up during startup: it starts with the directory from which Emacs was
> invoked, either from argv[0] or by looking up PATH. Either way, you
> get a file name that is encoded in the locale-specific encoding. Then
> you cons load-path by expanding file names relative to the startup
> directory. So you immediately need to be able to create file names
> from directories, check whether a file exists and is a directory,
> etc. -- all of that before you even know in what locale you started,
> so you cannot decode these file names into the internal
> representation, before using them.
Earlier in the 2.0.x release series, Guile had a hack where it started
up in a Latin-1 encoding, which would be capable of storing any
8-bit string of bytes, even if they weren't Latin-1. I was the author
of the first version of that hack. Anyway, while it was technically
incorrect, it did get the job done for some of these locale-free
byte string problems. It could open non-ASCII paths without really
having an encoding, if I recall correctly.
It was an uneasy middle ground, tho. Error messages with regards
to file names would be mojibake. And string ports were a mess.And what was
supposed to happen after setlocale was called?
As an aside, GTK and GLIB based applications often use a method where
you may need to set the environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING
if your filename encoding is different from your locale encoding.
GTK/GLIB also likes to store strings internally as UTF-8, and will
convert to UTF-8 from either the locale or the G_FILENAME_ENCODING-
specified encoding.
As another aside, OpenBSD removed support for non-UTF8 locales.
-Mike Gran
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, (continued)
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Marko Rauhamaa, 2017/01/30
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, David Kastrup, 2017/01/30
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Marko Rauhamaa, 2017/01/30
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, David Kastrup, 2017/01/30
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Marko Rauhamaa, 2017/01/30
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, David Kastrup, 2017/01/30
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/01/30
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, David Kastrup, 2017/01/30
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/01/30
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/01/30
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file,
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- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/01/30
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Mike Gran, 2017/01/31
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, David Kastrup, 2017/01/31
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Marko Rauhamaa, 2017/01/30
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, David Kastrup, 2017/01/30
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/01/30
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, Marko Rauhamaa, 2017/01/30
- Re: guile can't find a chinese named file, tomas, 2017/01/31