bug#22229: Error when running script from directory with non-ASCII characters

[Andy Wingo]

On Thu 24 Dec 2015 02:46, Vicente Vera <address@hidden> writes:

> Guile chokes when running a .scm script from a directory with
> non-ASCII characters.
>
> A simple test script:
>
> -------------------
> #!/usr/bin/guile -s
> !#
> ;; coding: utf-8
> (display "hey")
> (newline)
> -------------------
>
> $ cd ~/código/
> $ ./test.scm
> ;;; Stat of /home/me/c??digo/./test.scm failed:
> ;;; ERROR: In procedure stat: No such file or directory:

Weird :)

It's fixed in Guile 2.2 because Guile 2.2 installs the locale
automatically; see GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE here:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Environment-Variables.html

I don't know what to do about Guile 2.0 though.  And of course it's
possible even with Guile 2.2 to be in a directory whose name is not
valid in the current encoding.

Though I would like to fix it nicely, I suspect that given the proximity
of 2.2.0, we'll just punt on 2.0 :(  A bit frustrating though.

Andy