From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string? Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 18:53:57 +0300 Message-ID: <83bmcvhld6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zi0llisj.fsf@mbork.pl> <20180527073645.GB17354@tuxteam.de> <87y3g5l1h0.fsf@mbork.pl> <87sh67de6u.fsf@mbork.pl> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527781966 27582 195.159.176.226 (31 May 2018 15:52:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 15:52:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 31 17:52:41 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fOPsX-00074Y-J4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 17:52:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44837 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOPue-0006YD-MS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 11:54:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39319) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOPtt-0006Wa-2t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 11:54:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOPto-0004LV-80 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 11:54:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50993) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOPto-0004LN-4Y; Thu, 31 May 2018 11:54:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2689 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fOPtn-0003oh-GP; Thu, 31 May 2018 11:53:59 -0400 In-reply-to: <87sh67de6u.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Thu, 31 May 2018 17:42:33 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116925 Archived-At: > From: Marcin Borkowski > Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 17:42:33 +0200 > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > I really strongly recommend you try to solve this problem by doing > > nothing: keep the name in its full glory. Nowadays users *should* > > expect this to work. > > It's tempting, but no: these files will eventually be sent to > e.g. people on Windows XP and the like. I don't want to take risks of > unreadable filenames. Windows nowadays supports the full Unicode range of characters in file names, with a few exceptions that cannot happen in people's names (like slash, null, ':', etc.). Emacs on Windows even supports such file names (since Emacs 24).