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: Strange behaviour with dired and UTF8 Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 11:03:19 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200305021336.h42DaHbN022640@stubby.bodenonline.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051974184 30229 80.91.224.249 (3 May 2003 15:03:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 15:03:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@m17n.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat May 03 17:03:01 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 19ByXV-0007qu-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 17:03:01 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19ByZa-0001Jd-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 17:05:10 +0200 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 19ByYV-0004Jj-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 03 May 2003 11:04:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19ByY1-0003qI-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2003 11:03:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19ByXu-0003Tn-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2003 11:03:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19ByXn-00038v-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2003 11:03:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 19ByXn-0000ph-00; Sat, 03 May 2003 11:03:19 -0400 Original-To: "Jan D." In-reply-to: <200305021336.h42DaHbN022640@stubby.bodenonline.com> (jan.h.d@swipnet.se) 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:13648 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13648 I think I understand now. You mean if dired uses UTF8, and file system coding is Latin-1, Why would Dired use UTF8 if the file name encoding is Latin-1? Is this because the user set up perverse settings? Or is there some natural, normal set of options for which this would occur?