From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:41:39 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84r8b07z30.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <200301170613.PAA12807@etlken.m17n.org> <200301200038.JAA16159@etlken.m17n.org> <200301252205.h0PM5gsx029853@beta.mvs.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043592164 17926 80.91.224.249 (26 Jan 2003 14:42:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:42:44 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18cnzf-0004ez-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:42:43 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18co3P-0008It-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:46:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18co0N-0001EH-03 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:43:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18co06-00013v-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:43:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cnzz-0000mu-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:43:03 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cnzn-0000AF-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:42:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18cny7-0004ai-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:41:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18cny4-0004aI-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:41:04 +0100 Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7z40ZdcxcowJGr9ZWghIGpZ+N4o= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11084 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11084 "Ehud Karni" writes: > I agree that to use non-ASCII environment variable name is not > practical, so this problem is not really important, but the non-ASCII > values are used a lot, and the practical way for ISO-8859-x is to > have them in unibyte. I guess the most important question is: which coding system is used for values of environment variables? Emacs already has a number of different coding systems; it's not clear to me which one of them, if any, is appropriate for environment variables. process-coding-system? file-name-coding-system? And what happens if you do (setenv foo bar) and bar is a string which can't be encoded in the coding system specified for environment variables? -- Ambibibentists unite!