In article <CAGHDjn4=QmAgCyouB9=QUGBycrh_CAMJhqM0U8R5UikC8kDV5g@mail.gmail.com>, Haoyang Xu <snakehsu@gmail.com> writes:

>     (shell-quote-argument "/Users/user/$BCfJ8L\$AB<(B/$BCfJ8(Bfile.txt")
>     evals to
>     "/Users/user/\\$BCf(B\\$BJ8(B\\$BL\(B\\$AB<(B/\\$BCf(B\\$BJ8(Bfile.txt"

> The shell-quote-argument function yields the same output under a new
> emacs instance started with `emacs -q`, so this should not be related to
> my configuration.

> A quick look of the function in question shows that it just escapes all
> non-ASCII characters, and the escaped Chinese characters cannot be
> correctly recognized by either bash or zsh.

I agree that such excapes are superfluous, but my bash
recognizes it correctly (my locale is ja_JP.UTF-8).

% mkdir -p \$BCf(B\$BJ8(B\$BL\(B\$AB<(B/\$BCf(B\$BJ8(Bfile.txt
% ls \$BCf(B\$BJ8(B\$BL\(B\$AB<(B
$BCfJ8(Bfile.txt/

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Kenichi Handa
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