Re: LSR - file information [0.24759]

[Thomas Morley]

2016-11-28 0:51 GMT+01:00 David Wright <address@hidden>:
> On Sun 27 Nov 2016 at 22:51:15 (+0100), Thomas Morley wrote:
>> 2016-11-27 19:48 GMT+01:00 Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>:
>> >
>> > David Kastrup wrote Sunday, November 27, 2016 5:14 PM
>> >
>> >> File names are a tricky area in itself.  I think that there is some
>> >> normalization process involved in some systems that tries to make sure
>> >> that something like an ä will be recognized regardless of whether it is
>> >> written as a single character with umlaut or a combining diacritic with
>> >> letter a.
>> >>
>> >> I am not sure, but I think Linux does not even try at least on its
>> >> native file systems.  No idea how this would work with Windows.
>> >
>> > I successfully saved your email with a name of éèö.eml in Windows
>> > Vista, so I presume all later versions of Windows will be happy with
>> > UTF8 file names.
>> >
>> > Even using  "filename_名字.eml" works fine, at least for Windows
>> > native applications like Windows Mail.
>> >
>> > Trevor
>>
>> The issue is not to store UTF8 file-names, but to access them with guile
>>
>> Here another grrrrrrrrrrrrr:
>>
>> /home/hermann/lilypondH/Test/forum/chin
>> contains the above mentioned filename_名字.scm, nothing else.
>>
>> In a .ly-file I have:
>>
>> #(define dir (opendir "/home/hermann/lilypondH/Test/forum/chin"))
>> #(do ((entry (readdir dir) (readdir dir)))
>>     ((eof-object? entry))
>>   (if (eq? (stat:type (stat entry)) 'regular)
>>       (begin
>>         (format #t "\nguile found this file: ~a\n\n" entry)
>>         (system (format #f "guile ~a" entry))))
>>   (newline))
>> #(closedir dir)
>>
>> Compiling it with LilyPond 2.19.52-guile2 results in
>>
>> lilypond-git atest-47.ly
>> GNU LilyPond 2.19.52
>> Processing `atest-47.ly'
>> Parsing...
>>
>>
>> guile found this file: filename_名字.scm
>>
>> ;;; Stat of /home/hermann/lilypondH/Test/forum/filename_??.scm failed:
>> ;;; ERROR: In procedure stat: No such file or directory:
>> "/home/hermann/lilypondH/Test/forum/filename_\u540d\u5b57.scm"
>> Backtrace:
>> <snipping the rest, same as above>
>>
>> I mean, seriously???
>> Found and _not_ found???
>
> Why isn't "chin" in the output?



Because I made a little mistake where I called it. Doesn't matter,
though. Doing it correctly returns:
ERROR: In procedure stat: No such file or directory:
"/home/hermann/lilypondH/Test/forum/chin/filename_\u540d\u5b57.scm"
...

Cheers,
  Harm