From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: 44513@debbugs.gnu.org, boruch_baum@gmx.com
Subject: bug#44513: default value of file-name-coding-system
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2020 13:29:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <92897EE1-AEF0-4E4C-A66B-12DCF3843CAF@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201108091550.lqomueilkbxxhcl7@E15-2016.optimum.net>
On November 8, 2020 11:15:50 AM GMT+02:00, Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> wrote:
> Shouldn't emacs ship with the default value of variable
> file-name-coding-system being equal to that of the default value of
> default-file-name-coding-system?
>
> file-name-coding-system => nil
> (default-value file-name-coding-system) => nil
> default-file-name-coding-system => utf-8-unix
These are 2 separate variables, see the doc string of default-file-name-coding-system. One is for the user to set, thus nil by default, the other is what Emacs thinks should be the OS default. They are separate because Unix filesystems traditionally treat file names as byte streams, without imposing any encoding restrictions on them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-08 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-08 9:15 bug#44513: default value of file-name-coding-system Boruch Baum
2020-11-08 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-11-08 12:27 ` Boruch Baum
2020-11-08 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-09 15:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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