Re: [brakjoller@gmail.com: setting utf-16 as file-name-coding-system locks up emacs]

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <c99f54dd0408120122401e9526@mail.gmail.com>, Mattis <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:

> OK. So, the best would be to have the encoding set to
> "undecided" and then let Emacs figure out which encoding
> is used, right?

Unfortunately, no.  By that, Emacs may be able to decode the
file name corrrectly, but it doesn't remember the encoding
for the time it has to encode the file name.

I belive that Windows itself has a function to handle such a
file name consistently.  So, I think the best is to make a
speical coding system, say windows-file-name, that works
only for Windows.  It decodes file names into utf-8 sequence
(internal code of Emacs-Unicode), and encode file names into
locale encoding or utf-16le-with-signature depending on the
contents.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@m17n.org