From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:22:27 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200301170613.PAA12807@etlken.m17n.org> <200301200038.JAA16159@etlken.m17n.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043522590 13847 80.91.224.249 (25 Jan 2003 19:23:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:23:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@m17n.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18cVtT-0003b5-00 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:23:07 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18cVwq-0004Tf-00 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:26:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cVtr-0005TP-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:23:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cVtK-00057T-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:22:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cVtB-00053Q-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:22:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cVsp-00040t-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:22:27 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18cVsp-0002b2-00; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:22:27 -0500 Original-To: Dave Love In-reply-to: (message from Dave Love on 23 Jan 2003 23:04:25 +0000) Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11057 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11057 > I'm not sure what that means, but something needs to be done to make > non-ASCII usable. > > Could you show an example of what exactly you would like to do, > that doesn't work now? I'm surprised there's any question about doing coding conversion, if that's what you mean. "Make non-ASCII usable" is not specific enough for me to understand. I cannot be sure if there is a real problem. Please show me a specific problem case so I can judge if there is a significant problem. If you have a non-ASCII variable name, you can't sensibly use M-x getenv with it; getenv could decode the variable name, if that is useful. if you have your non-ASCII personal name in NAME, Emacs gets your `user-full-name' as a unibyte string with which random things will happen; Please show specific examples so I can judge whether these are real problems and, if so, look for solutions.