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: ISO-8859-1 encoded file names and UTF-8 Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:52:38 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200303200911.SAA01056@etlken.m17n.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048388122 1530 80.91.224.249 (23 Mar 2003 02:55:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 02:55:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 23 03:55:21 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18wvdp-0000OY-00 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 03:55:21 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18wvgK-0004R5-00 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 03:57:56 +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 18wvcK-0003PO-03 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:53:48 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18wvbj-0002i1-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:53:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18wvbV-0002Ap-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:52:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.10.13) id 18wvbJ-0001h2-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:52:45 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18wvbC-0000a0-00; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:52:38 -0500 Original-To: Kenichi Handa In-reply-to: <200303200911.SAA01056@etlken.m17n.org> (message from Kenichi Handa on Thu, 20 Mar 2003 18:11:40 +0900 (JST)) Original-cc: keichwa@gmx.net 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:12534 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12534 > Should the recoding of filename regarded as a kind of file name > changing? > I don't understand the question. What would it mean to say this is > true? Changing the encoding of filename means that chaning the byte sequence of the name. For OS, that is just chaning the filename. And, my sample code recode-file actually calls rename-file internally. Ok, I guess this is a special case of changing the file name. Why do you ask?