Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> skribis: >> From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) >> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:29:06 +0100 >> >> Does anyone know of systems where the file name encoding is commonly >> different from locale encoding? Is it the case on Windows? > > Windows stores file names on disk encoded in UTF-16, but converts them > to the current codepage if you use Posix-style interfaces like 'open' > and 'rename'.
So in practice, given that Guile uses the POSIX interfaces, the assumption that file names are in the locale encoding is valid on Windows. Ludo’.
