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Subject: Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion
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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     I'm not sure what that means, but something needs to be done to make
>     non-ASCII usable.
> 
> Could you show an example of what exactly you would like to do,
> that doesn't work now?

I'm surprised there's any question about doing coding conversion, if
that's what you mean.

If you have a non-ASCII variable name, you can't sensibly use M-x
getenv with it; if you have your non-ASCII personal name in NAME,
Emacs gets your `user-full-name' as a unibyte string with which random
things will happen; &c.