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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: directory-files function - strange bug
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:49:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bnz9jfb9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aba316c8-0bfd-41c1-94f2-3c80bbb4527e@googlegroups.com>

> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:37:05 -0800 (PST)
> From: Deric Bytes <dericbytes@gmail.com>
> 
> When I viewed the file in cygwin the – was shown as –??.

Cygwin uses Unicode (a.k.a. "wide") APIs to communicate file names to
the system, so it can support file names outside of the current
codepage.  So will Emacs in the next version.

> What is strange is that it worked on my c: drive and not my f: drive.

I suspect they have different filesystems, like NTFS vs FAT32.




  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-18 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-18 11:41 directory-files function - strange bug Deric Bytes
2014-01-18 11:44 ` Deric Bytes
2014-01-18 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.12257.1390065177.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-01-18 17:49   ` Deric Bytes
2014-01-18 17:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.12263.1390068072.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-01-18 18:37       ` Deric Bytes
2014-01-18 18:49         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]         ` <mailman.12267.1390070984.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-01-19  1:41           ` Deric Bytes
2014-01-19  3:47             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]             ` <mailman.12289.1390103243.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-01-19 12:51               ` Deric Bytes
2014-01-19 15:49                 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.12317.1390146590.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-01-22  2:44                   ` Deric Bytes
2014-01-22  3:49                     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                     ` <mailman.12547.1390362586.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-01-22  4:21                       ` Deric Bytes

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