From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:11:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1659-Sun26Jan2003191130+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84r8b07z30.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de)
> From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:41:39 +0100
>
> I guess the most important question is: which coding system is used
> for values of environment variables?
Something locale-dependent, I guess.
We could also try guessing the encoding, since a typical process
environment is a substantial chunk of text (so a probability of an
error is not very high, I think).
> And what happens if you do (setenv foo bar) and bar is a string which
> can't be encoded in the coding system specified for environment
> variables?
How is this different from hitting the same problem inside
write-region or save-buffer?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-26 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-16 12:05 environment variable don't get coding conversion Dave Love
2003-01-17 6:13 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-18 0:46 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-20 0:38 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-20 16:46 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-21 18:21 ` Dave Love
2003-01-23 7:59 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-23 23:04 ` Dave Love
2003-01-25 19:22 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-25 22:05 ` Ehud Karni
2003-01-26 14:41 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-26 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-01-27 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-01-27 2:48 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-26 18:50 ` Dave Love
2003-01-27 2:31 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-28 18:42 ` Dave Love
2003-01-26 18:22 ` Dave Love
2003-01-21 18:18 ` Dave Love
2003-01-23 8:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-25 0:56 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-25 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-26 15:36 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-26 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-27 17:41 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-27 2:27 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-26 18:23 ` Dave Love
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