From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: getpwent, user-full-name and utf-8
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:01:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HUFQm-0006co-GP@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86zm66q5ov.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:58:08 +0100)
I propose that we bite the bullet, assume a fixed external system
encoding of utf-8 for such strings, and recode accordingly.
Since this is a matter of interacting with the rest of the system, the
pertinent question is not how people OUGHT to encode /etc/passwd, but
rather how they DO encode it.
Is there a common practice of encoding parts of /etc/passwd in utf-8?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-22 5:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-21 9:58 getpwent, user-full-name and utf-8 David Kastrup
2007-03-21 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-21 20:51 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-22 2:30 ` Miles Bader
2007-03-22 7:01 ` Jan Djärv
2007-03-22 7:40 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-22 8:17 ` Jan Djärv
2007-03-22 9:06 ` Jan Djärv
2007-03-22 5:01 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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