From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: 19463@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19463: 25.0.50; Files with special chars in the name cannot be written on MS Windows
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:32:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wq59byoc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhlq2kam.fsf@gmx.de>
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: 19463@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 22:55:13 +0100
>
> > This is expected. What exactly do you want us to do with this issue?
> > Unless we radically change the way we do file I/O (similarly to what
> > Cygwin does), which is a very large job, this issue cannot be
> > resolved.
> >
> > We simply should not use such file names on Windows.
>
> At least we shall mention this restriction, for example in
> (info "(emacs) Windows Files")
I don't mind documenting it, but traditionally there was objection to
talking too much about Windows in our manuals.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-30 3:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-29 15:56 bug#19463: 25.0.50; Files with special chars in the name cannot be written on MS Windows Michael Albinus
2014-12-29 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-29 21:55 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-30 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-12-30 8:29 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-30 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-30 17:38 ` Michael Albinus
2015-01-31 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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