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Re: guile can't find a chinese named file


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: guile can't find a chinese named file
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 09:51:09 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:42:38 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: Mike Gran <address@hidden>
>> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Earlier in the 2.0.x release series, Guile had a hack where it started
>> up in a Latin-1 encoding, which would be capable of storing any
>> 8-bit string of bytes, even if they weren't Latin-1.
>
> Latin-1 has holes in the 0..255 range, so it isn't very appropriate in
> this situation.

What Guile calls "Latin-1" is really unibyte.

-- 
David Kastrup



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