From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string? Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 17:42:33 +0200 Message-ID: <87sh67de6u.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87zi0llisj.fsf@mbork.pl> <20180527073645.GB17354@tuxteam.de> <87y3g5l1h0.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527781335 9597 195.159.176.226 (31 May 2018 15:42:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 15:42:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 31 17:42:11 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fOPiK-0002K1-GX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 17:42:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44753 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOPkR-0002Xy-HL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 11:44:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34886) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOPk4-0002Xs-7y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 11:43:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOPjz-0003oC-Bt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 11:43:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:46163) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOPjz-0003mb-4B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 11:43:51 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5890AE6F17; Thu, 31 May 2018 17:43:44 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4N5dILLwdvNq; Thu, 31 May 2018 17:43:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (static-dwadziewiec-jedenpiec7.echostar.pl [109.232.29.157]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F2EE4E69FC; Thu, 31 May 2018 17:43:40 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 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:116924 Archived-At: On 2018-05-31, at 16:23, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Still, I need something *simple*. I have a person's name (possibly with >> some national characters), and I want to derive a filename from it. > > I really strongly recommend you try to solve this problem by doing > nothing: keep the name in its full glory. Nowadays users *should* > expect this to work. It's tempting, but no: these files will eventually be sent to e.g. people on Windows XP and the like. I don't want to take risks of unreadable filenames. Thanks anyway, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl