> From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) > Cc: guile-user@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:03:05 +0100 > > 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.
For now, yes. But I was under the impression that this thread discusses future designs, and for that, I don't recommend to rely on this situation to remain for long. After all, providing wrappers for a few Posix interfaces is not such a hard job.
