From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames? Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:15:15 +0100 Message-ID: <47344F53.3080602@swipnet.se> References: <47339ED4.1040906@f2s.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194610656 3999 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2007 12:17:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:17:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, jasonr@f2s.com, lekktu@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 09 13:17:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IqSno-0003nU-IG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:17:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IqSnc-0002q7-US for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:17:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IqSmt-0002AL-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:16:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IqSmp-00026v-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:16:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IqSmp-00026m-JE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:16:35 -0500 Original-Received: from av6-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net ([81.228.9.179]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IqSma-00026w-GB; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:16:21 -0500 Original-Received: by av6-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id A42263880C; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 13:16:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.102]) by av6-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7911F38507; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 13:16:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from husetbladh.homeip.net (90-231-102-24-no59.tbcn.telia.com [90.231.102.24]) by smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53D237E70; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 13:16:16 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:82864 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii skrev: >> From: Andreas Schwab >> Cc: Stefan Monnier , lekktu@gmail.com, >> jasonr@f2s.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:07:23 +0100 >> >> Eli Zaretskii writes: >> >>> And Linux filesystems use UTF-8 for file names anyway, right? >> Linux filesystems do not use any encoding, they use raw bytes. > > Yes, but what kind of bytes would those be on a typical box that uses > non-ASCII characters in file names? I know it can be _anything_, but > I think typically these characters will be encoded in UTF-8. > The trend for Gnome and KDE and other desktop environments is to use UTF-8 (just about everywhere, not just file names), so you can say UTF-8 is most likely. Jan D.