Hi, On Wed 15 Feb 2017 18:07, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:
> the [Emacs] MS-Windows port pretends towards Emacs internals that file > names are encoded in UTF-8, and shadows relevant system APIs that > accept or return file names, like fopen, opendir/readdir, stat, > etc. with its own versions that convert UTF-8 to and from UTF-16 > before calling the real OS APIs. > > Once again, just use that experience, and maybe even some > infrastructure code. FWIW we are up for good suggestions. It's clear that file names (and command line arguments and environment variables) aren't handled ideally in Guile as they aren't fundamentally strings of characters in any particular encoding, and hence this class of bug. Andy
