From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:38:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7iksnz35.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u4pfwqx66.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:50:25 +0200")
> It is still better to use UTF-8 because that makes the file readable
> by other programs.
But it will fail in Emacs-22 if the file (which contains file names)
contains chars that Emacs-22 doesn't know how to encode to (and decode
from) utf-8.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-08 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-08 15:05 Encoding for a file containing filenames? Juanma Barranquero
2007-11-08 16:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-08 16:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-11-08 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-08 22:38 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-11-08 23:42 ` Jason Rumney
2007-11-09 4:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-09 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-09 11:05 ` Jan Djärv
2007-11-09 11:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-09 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-09 12:15 ` Jan Djärv
2007-11-09 12:16 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-11-09 12:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-09 14:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-09 10:34 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-11-09 16:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-10 1:10 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-11-09 0:41 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-11-09 0:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-11-09 1:05 ` Kenichi Handa
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