Pierre Neidhardt <[email protected]> writes:
>> : > Store file names are always ASCII so problems arise when they are stored
>> : > as UTF-16 or UTF-32/UCS-4.
>> :
>> : I understand that most programs stick to ASCII filenames, but what about
>> the odd
>> : one using non-English, special characters?
>>
>> That’s a separate debate. :-) Essentially this restriction on store
>> file names has always been there in Guix (and Nix before that). If we
>> were to change it, that would raise compatibility issues.
>
> But what happens if we attempt to store "á" in the store?
Indeed. Although we might restrict the immediate entries within
/gnu/store to ASCII characters, file names deeper within those
directories may have non-ASCII characters. More generally, store
references may occur within larger strings which might include non-ASCII
characters.
Mark
