From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: on eshell's encoding Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 20:12:50 +0300 Message-ID: <83d1lzroml.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86fuqw5vd8.fsf@toledo.com> <864m7c5oqc.fsf@toledo.com> <86zip3uweo.fsf@toledo.com> <83invrrqz6.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469639618 7087 80.91.229.3 (27 Jul 2016 17:13:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:13:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 27 19:13:37 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bSSOn-0000R6-FS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 19:13:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47893 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bSSOm-0001kh-P7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 13:13:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43692) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bSSOI-0001gP-G8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 13:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bSSOE-0002fW-1s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 13:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59787) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bSSOD-0002fG-VJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 13:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3201 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bSSOC-0005Ei-1W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 13:13:00 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Yuri Khan on Wed, 27 Jul 2016 22:47:01 +0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110950 Archived-At: > From: Yuri Khan > Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 22:47:01 +0600 > Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > It's actually worse than that: the Windows locale implementation > > doesn't support variable-length encodings > > It sort of does, as long as the variable in question never exceeds 2. > See, for example, cp932. cp939 is a DBCS character set, so not relevant to the above.