From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: Paul Stoeber <paul.stoeber@stud.tu-ilmenau.de>
Subject: Re: emacs misbehaves without --unibyte
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 12:00:50 +0300 (IDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020529115904.29375B@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020529085604.GA499186@bruegel.RZ.TU-Ilmenau.DE>
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Paul Stoeber wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 09:23:11AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > I started this thread because default emacs wouldn't let me navigate
> > > filesystems that contain funny filenames, so the "8-bit cleanness"
> > > discussion only applies to file name handling (although I had also
> > > mentioned "text/binary files" in a general statement).
> >
> > For that, Miles gave the solution: you should set up your language
> > environment correctly, or set file-name-coding-system explicitly.
>
> Yes. If you simply want to use dired as a robust filesystem browser
> (like bash, only more comfortable), regardless of your language
> or the language of who created the files, then
>
> (setq file-name-coding-system 'no-conversion)
>
> seems to be a solution.
Should we perhaps make no-conversion be the default value of
file-name-coding-system, instead of nil?
next parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-29 9:00 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20020529085604.GA499186@bruegel.RZ.TU-Ilmenau.DE>
2002-05-29 9:00 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-05-29 9:10 ` emacs misbehaves without --unibyte Miles Bader
2002-05-29 10:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-29 13:11 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-29 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-31 7:04 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-30 17:04 ` Richard Stallman
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