Re: error :GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here #

[David Wright]

On Thu 22 Jul 2021 at 12:12:03 (-0400), ming tsang wrote:
> 
> I guess I will wait for #1379 in frecobaldi user list to resolve.

I hope you're only waiting to be able to double-click in your file
manager, which after all is just a matter of convenience, rather
than necessity.

I don't know what your filemanager looks like, and whether it runs
within a working directory or not, but if so, you could try out
double-clicking where /only/ the directory path is Chinese, but the
actual filename is composed of roman (plain) characters. Under these
circumstances, only the filename needs to be passed to the program,
and the latter could determine the Chinese name of the current working
directory itself. I'm not optimistic, however.

> I use surface pro 4 & window 10; frecobaldi v3.1.3, lilypond v2.23.3.
> [ … ]
> I don't know "Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)" is UTF-8 or UTF-16.

It's a function of the OS and the filesystem, not the language
(and we're discussing only paths/filenames, not text files etc).
With NTFS, I think UTF-16 has been a permanent fixture since XP.

The actual rules on naming files are quite involved, and I wouldn't
claim to understand their full implications. I can only point to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Internals
I hope these features are not interfering with the interpretation
of your filenames. The same goes for the first paragraph of:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file?redirectedfrom=MSDN#win32-file-namespaces

> The following is how one can re-create the problem in window 10.
> e.g.
> 1.   create c:\yming\lily_聖詩
> 2.  then I create file name in frecobaldi    勉勵.ly <http://xn--4grwd.ly>;
> and saved to "c:\yming\lily_聖詩".
> A.  In "file manager" - double click the file name - frecobaldi opens up
> two blank tabs with unreadible tab names.
> B. within "frecobaldi" - file>open ... then nevigate to  location
> c:\yming\lily_聖詩 ; click on file 勉勵.ly <http://xn--4grwd.ly> frecobaldi
> display the file with contents in "勉勵.ly <http://xn--4grwd.ly>." tab.

I've no idea what these <http://xn--4grwd.ly> constructions
are meant to signify.

> Note:  either file location or file name or both contain non english
> characters, "A" happends.

Cheers,
David.