On 11/1/06, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> wrote:

> But on the other hand (file-name-directory "é:") gives nil.

 (file-name-directory (string (multibyte-char-as-unibyte ?é) ?:))

  => "\311:/"

I guess `file-name-directory' is treating "é:" as unibyte, so its
second char is not `:', so it's not a drive:path.

All in all, perhaps `file-name-directory' should check that the X in
X: is in the 'A'..'Z' range.

-- 
                    /L/e/k/t/u