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: Added support for Unicode file names on MS-Windows. Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:48:20 +0200 Message-ID: <83ob4l58nf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8338lx7wfx.fsf@gnu.org> <52AADD6F.8050901@gmx.at> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386931709 17043 80.91.229.3 (13 Dec 2013 10:48:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:48:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 13 11:48:34 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1VrQIL-0003TS-Jt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:48:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41403 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrQIL-0000Yd-2F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 05:48:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40911) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrQID-0000YL-0l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 05:48:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrQI7-0004HT-Ti for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 05:48:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:44133) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrQI7-0004HM-LJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 05:48:19 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MXQ00M00RBXNI00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:48:18 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MXQ00MNXRCHJM50@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:48:18 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <52AADD6F.8050901@gmx.at> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:166367 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:11:59 +0100 > From: martin rudalics > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Starting with trunk revision 115490, Emacs on Windows can access files > > whose names include characters outside of the current ANSI codepage. > > This has been the subject of several bug reports in the past. > > Gets my vote for patch of the year (on Windows, at least)! Thanks. But I would reserve my judgment at least until we see that no significant breakage was caused by these invasive changes. (My testing was as thorough as I could afford, but my Windows machines are always configured for a single-byte locale with US English as the default language, so I have no real-life use cases for working with non-ASCII directories, let alone those outside of the locale's codepage.)