> From: Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> > Cc: ch...@cvine.freeserve.co.uk, guile-user@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:34:26 -0500 > > Well, I understand that MS has standardized on UTF-16 (right?)
Right. > but what matters from Guile's perspective is the encoding used by > the POSIX-style interfaces that Guile uses, such as 'open'. Do you > know what encoding that is on Windows? It's the current system codepage, a.k.a. "ANSI" encoding. But sticking to that means you can never support file names with characters outside of the current locale. So IMO this is not "good enough" for Guile. The POSIX-style interfaces issue can be worked around by providing wrapper functions. A few projects already do that: Emacs, msysgit.
