Full Unicode Pathnames

[Glynn Clements]

Benson Margulies wrote:

> Have you given any thought to supporting full Unicode file names on
> Win32? The semi-obvious strategy is to represent in UTF-8 in lisp and
> down to the bottom of the C code, and then transcode and call the W
> APIs.

The problem with using UTF-8 is that you still have to transcode to
the system codepage when using any 8-bit interfaces (e.g. passing data
to subprocesses). Although there is a UTF-8 codepage (CP-65001), I've
never encountered anyone using it as their system codepage.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>