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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: on eshell's encoding
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 00:26:42 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8UqLuSf5je3uHRjLM07MirvPjXhha6BHZhz4AE2F09pnQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83twfcs4j1.fsf@gnu.org>

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:17 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> The only way to break the limitations of the
> system codepage is to use the Unicode (a.k.a. "wide") APIs, which
> expect strings in UTF-16 encoding.  But that is not currently
> supported in Emacs, due to boring technical problems.

It’s not even clear if using the wide API on the caller side will
suffice. The callee also needs to cooperate, by using the
corresponding wide API to retrieve the command line arguments.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-26 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-26 14:25 on eshell's encoding Daniel Bastos
2016-07-26 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.2058.1469545530.26859.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-07-26 16:49   ` Daniel Bastos
2016-07-26 17:17     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-26 18:26       ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2016-07-26 18:35         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2074.1469553449.26859.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-07-27 11:56       ` Daniel Bastos
2016-07-27 13:15         ` Yuri Khan
2016-07-27 16:22           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-27 16:47             ` Yuri Khan
2016-07-27 17:12               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-27 16:14         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <mailman.2119.1469636078.26859.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-08-02 13:24           ` Daniel Bastos
2016-08-02 15:12             ` Eli Zaretskii

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