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Stefan Monnier wrote:
> But it will fail in Emacs-22 if the file (which contains file names)
> contains chars that Emacs-22 doesn't know how to encode to (and decode
> from) utf-8.
Are there any such chars that are likely to be used in filenames? Or is 
it just the mule specific charsets that Emacs-22 cannot encode as utf-8.