From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15260: cannot build in a directory with non-ascii characters Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:45:09 +0200 Message-ID: <83bo24d0qi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83y55ih6g3.fsf@gnu.org> <81ppqums9o.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83hac5h1ha.fsf@gnu.org> <83bo2dgq36.fsf@gnu.org> <837gd1gpcz.fsf@gnu.org> <8361slgnhk.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjpwfp3l.fsf@gnu.org> <83mwlug0cd.fsf@gnu.org> <83bo2af4hh.fsf@gnu.org> <8361shfil7.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383291975 12227 80.91.229.3 (1 Nov 2013 07:46:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:46:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 15260@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 01 08:46:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vc9Qu-0002kX-NM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:46:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60645 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vc9Qu-0007jc-8P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 03:46:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53695) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vc9Qm-0007jR-IP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 03:46:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vc9Qh-000686-Ca for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 03:46:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:42340) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vc9Qh-00067w-8h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 03:46:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Vc9Qg-0004sf-Fx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 03:46:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 07:46:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15260 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 15260-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15260.138329195518746 (code B ref 15260); Fri, 01 Nov 2013 07:46:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15260) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Nov 2013 07:45:55 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56359 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Vc9QY-0004sI-KY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 03:45:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:60447) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Vc9QV-0004s2-Ec for 15260@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 03:45:52 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MVK00E00QUOW200@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 15260@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:45:24 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MVK00EFGQVMNKA0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:45:24 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:79846 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: Stefan Monnier , handa@gnu.org, 15260@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:45:32 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > mule-cmds.el calls reset-language-environment, and language/english.el > > calls set-language-info-alist; both have the effect of resetting > > default-file-name-coding-system to latin-1 (!? an interesting > > "default" for a Unicode-era Emacs, perhaps Handa-san could comment why > > we still do that). > > I know nothing about this, but eg glib defaults to utf-8, which seems > like a better default to me these days: Yes, probably. That's why I wrote that comment in parens. Fortunately, the final patch side-steps this issue altogether by keeping all the related file names as unibyte strings, so that the current defaults for encoding file names do not affect anything. So we can reason about the default independently of the issues in this bug.