From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ISO-8859-1 encoded file names and UTF-8 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:28:00 +0900 (JST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200303240028.JAA05308@etlken.m17n.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048465740 31765 80.91.224.249 (24 Mar 2003 00:29:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 00:29:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 24 01:28:59 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18xFpj-0008GD-00 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 01:28:59 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18xFpx-0001NK-00 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 01:29:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xFpa-0001I9-03 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 19:28:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xFp2-0000oV-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 19:28:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xFox-0000gH-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 19:28:12 -0500 Original-Received: from tsukuba.m17n.org ([192.47.44.130]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xFoo-00009y-00; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 19:28:03 -0500 Original-Received: from fs.m17n.org (fs.m17n.org [192.47.44.2])h2O0S1900319; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:28:01 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) h2O0S0A11412; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:28:00 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id JAA05308; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:28:00 +0900 (JST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:52:38 -0500) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.2.92 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Original-cc: keichwa@gmx.net X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12554 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12554 In article , Richard Stallman writes: >> I don't understand the question. What would it mean to say this is >> true? > Changing the encoding of filename means that chaning the > byte sequence of the name. For OS, that is just chaning the > filename. And, my sample code recode-file actually calls > rename-file internally. > Ok, I guess this is a special case of changing the file name. > Why do you ask? The above is an OS's point of view. Users may not consider that changing filename encoding is a special case of rename-file. Even for you, the explanation was necessary. So, I wanted to hear other people's opinions about which is better; enhancing the existing rename-file directly (perhaps by making use of the prefix argument), or making a new command recode-file-name. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@m17n.org