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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@etl.go.jp,
	Paul Stoeber <paul.stoeber@stud.tu-ilmenau.de>
Subject: Re: emacs misbehaves without --unibyte
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 13:06:58 +0300 (IDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020529130511.1847B-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buo6617z5e1.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>


On 29 May 2002, Miles Bader wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> > Should we perhaps make no-conversion be the default value of 
> > file-name-coding-system, instead of nil?
> 
> I presume you mean, if there's no language environment.

Yes.

For some reason, many systems have file-name-coding-system set to nil by 
default (I never had time to find out why), which is bad mantra.

> Then people
> will always see non-ascii characters in filenames as octal escapes,
> which I guess is the best that can be done...

If they use standard-display-8bit, they might even see non-ASCII characters 
instead.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-29 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20020529085604.GA499186@bruegel.RZ.TU-Ilmenau.DE>
2002-05-29  9:00 ` emacs misbehaves without --unibyte Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-29  9:10   ` Miles Bader
2002-05-29 10:06     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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