Re: Filename encoding

[Ludovic Courtès]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> skribis:

>> From: address@hidden (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’.