Re: Error with make doc

[Jean Abou Samra]

Ah, but, wait.

$ touch àéù.txt


$ guile3.0
scheme@(guile-user)> (open-file "àéù.txt" "r")
$1 = #<input: àéù.txt 13>

~/tmp $ LC_ALL=C guile3.0
scheme@(guile-user)> (open-file "àéù.txt" "r")
ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
In procedure open-file: No such file or directory: "??????.txt"



OK, so Guile is assuming that the locale encoding determines
the encoding of file names (which is quite reasonable), and so,
when run under the C locale, it's transforming non-ASCII
characters into question marks before resolving the path,
as part of converting to the locale encoding.

Can someone remind me why the build system sets the C locale
in the first place?

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