Re: Foreign file names on MS-Windows

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Now the important question I promised at the beginning: Should we
> install this change on the release branch?  Here are the pros and cons
> that I could think of for this decision:
> 
> Cons:
> 
>   . It is too close to release for such non-trivial changes.
> 
>   . The affected primitives are used in lots of places, and this
>     change could break them, and the Lisp code that uses them.
> 
>   . This problem exists in Emacs for a long time, so it's not a big
>     deal if it continues to exist some more (until resolved in Emacs
>     23).
> 
>   . The suggested solution is only partial, and the resulting file
>     names are UGLY.
> 
> Pros:
> 
>   . The bug is quite grave: it causes real data loss.
> 
>   . Whatever code uses the affected primitives is probably already
>     broken.
> 
>   . The change is very simple, so the probability of it being buggy
>     is very low (but please eyeball the diffs below to make it lower
>     still).

Does the problem affect only W9x systems? Does the patch only affect them?