From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: kzhr@d1.dion.ne.jp, michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multibyte and unibyte file names
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:37:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k3r1lnlb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzjzyt9it.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, kzhr@d1.dion.ne.jp, michael.albinus@gmx.de
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:06:56 -0500
>
> >> > So you are saying that each primitive should detect unibyte file names
> >> > it gets as arguments and DECODE_FILE them right away?
> >> I think not: I was talking about decoding the file names *returned*
> >> by primitives.
> > What would be the difference, from the POV of the callers of the
> > primitives?
>
> That the callers get to see meaningful (decoded) names?
> That file-name manipulation functions don't have the side effect of
> encoding/decoding file names?
If we decode unibyte file names at entry to each primitive, before
doing anything else, and thereafter manipulate decoded multibyte
strings, this will happen anyway.
But since everybody (at least those who spoke) seem to think this is a
w32 only problem, I will solve it for w32 only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-25 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-23 17:45 Multibyte and unibyte file names Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-23 18:08 ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-23 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-23 23:38 ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-23 19:42 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-23 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-23 20:58 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-24 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-23 21:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-24 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-24 18:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-24 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-25 0:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-25 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-01-25 11:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-25 20:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-25 22:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-26 10:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-26 11:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-26 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-26 22:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-27 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-27 8:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-01-27 9:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-28 1:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-28 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-28 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-02 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-26 13:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-26 3:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-26 11:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-26 13:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-26 13:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-26 16:26 ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-26 18:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-26 17:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-26 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-26 18:06 ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-26 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-26 18:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-26 21:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-26 21:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-27 6:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-26 16:05 ` Richard Stallman
2013-01-26 17:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-26 22:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-24 10:00 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-24 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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