From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:08:45 +0300 Message-ID: <83mxgb7bz6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4E2377E2.1020804@gmail.com> <4E23DA4A.1080301@gmail.com> <4E23FFB4.1040809@gmail.com> <4E240FC5.3050509@gmail.com> <83pql77d8z.fsf@gnu.org> <4E2463EC.4040302@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311011152 10468 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2011 17:45:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:45:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 18 19:45:48 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qirt1-0004zy-9i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:45:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44567 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qirt0-0003Gc-AA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:45:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40617) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QirJO-0001ZX-SC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:08:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QirJK-0005aY-Gr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:08:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:61353) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QirJJ-0005aL-PM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:08:50 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LOJ00I00GNFM900@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:08:47 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.133.66]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LOJ00IH6GYKPA00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:08:45 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4E2463EC.4040302@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142123 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:48:44 -0700 > From: Daniel Colascione > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I meant that we can convert to UTF-8 (or our internal multibyte > encoding) until the very last moment before calling a system function; We already do that. The problem is with processing the strings which don't come from Lisp nor are going to be passed to the Lisp level. Just take a look at w32.c, and you will see what I mean.