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From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour with dired and UTF8
Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 20:11:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B2949A7D-7D92-11D7-BBF7-00039363E640@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E19ByYD-0000t0-00@fencepost.gnu.org>

> It would be fundamentally clean to make sure that decoding of file
> names is never many-one.  Is that possible?  Some of your messages
> suggest it is already the case.

I don't think it is possible as long as Emacs only has one file
system encoding (file-name-coding-system).

The original problem is this:

file-name-coding-system is latin-1
Open dired on a directory with UTF-8 file names.
Do C-x RET r utf-8.
Try to operate on a file with non-ascii characters gives
   "File no longer exists; type `g' to update Dired buffer"

This is because when decoding the file name Emacs uses latin-1 and thus
doesn't get the original file name back.

As long as there can be file names with different encodings this problem
can occur.

	Jan D.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-03 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-24 11:43 Strange behaviour with dired and UTF8 Jan D.
2003-04-25 13:20 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-01  6:52 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-05-02  6:41   ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-02  8:16   ` Jan D.
2003-05-02  8:56     ` Kenichi Handa
2003-05-02  9:59       ` Jan D.
2003-05-02 11:22         ` Kenichi Handa
2003-05-02 12:44           ` Jan D.
2003-05-03 15:03             ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-03 18:04               ` Jan D.
2003-05-05 14:32                 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-07 15:51                   ` Jan D.
2003-05-07 16:09                     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-09 11:19                       ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-03 15:59             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-05-03 17:59               ` Jan D.
2003-05-05  9:20             ` Kenichi Handa
2003-05-06 18:05               ` Jan D.
2003-05-07  1:08                 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-05-07 15:43                   ` Jan D.
2003-05-03 15:03       ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-03 18:11         ` Jan D. [this message]
2003-05-06  5:39         ` Kenichi Handa
2003-05-06 14:41           ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-07 15:49           ` Jan D.
2003-05-07 16:31             ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-07 17:40               ` Jan D.

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