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

-Miles
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