Guile chokes when running a .scm script from a directory with non-ASCII characters.
A simple test script: ------------------- #!/usr/bin/guile -s !# ;; coding: utf-8 (display "hey") (newline) ------------------- $ cd ~/código/ $ ./test.scm ;;; Stat of /home/me/c??digo/./test.scm failed: ;;; ERROR: In procedure stat: No such file or directory: "/home/me/c??digo/./test.scm" Backtrace: In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 157: 8 [catch #t #<catch-closure 9949e00> ...] In unknown file: ?: 7 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 9949e00>] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 63: 6 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...] In ice-9/eval.scm: 432: 5 [eval # #] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 2401: 4 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 9957cc0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:4045:3 ()>] 4052: 3 [#<procedure 9957cc0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:4045:3 ()>] 1724: 2 [%start-stack load-stack ...] 1729: 1 [#<procedure 995e738 ()>] In unknown file: ?: 0 [primitive-load "/home/me/c??digo/./test.scm"] ERROR: In procedure primitive-load: ERROR: In procedure open-file: No such file or directory: "/home/me/c??digo/./test.scm" When removing the UTF-8 character from the working directory Guile runs as expected: $ cd ~ $ mv -T código/ code/ $ cd code/ $ ./test.scm hey Locale: en_US.UTF-8 System: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1 (2015-12-14) i686 GNU/Linux Guile version: $ guile -v guile (GNU Guile) 2.0.11 Packaged by Debian (2.0.11-deb+1-9) ...