From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames? Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:05:56 +0900 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194572733 6940 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2007 01:45:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 01:45:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 09 02:45:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IqIwD-00062K-H4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:45:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IqIw1-0000Rm-Qi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:45:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IqIuW-0007sq-KX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:43:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IqIuT-0007r4-PX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:43:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IqIuS-0007qd-Vk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:43:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.aist.go.jp ([150.29.246.133]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IqIK5-0006NN-Tc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:06:18 -0500 Original-Received: from rqsmtp2.aist.go.jp (rqsmtp2.aist.go.jp [150.29.254.123]) by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id lA9160bg013787; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:06:00 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from smtp2.aist.go.jp by rqsmtp2.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id lA9160uU002861; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:06:00 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: by smtp2.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id lA915vOx018357; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:05:57 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from handa by etlken.m17n.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IqIJo-0004ag-VK; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:05:56 +0900 In-reply-to: (lekktu@gmail.com) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/23.0.60 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:82838 Archived-At: In article , "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On 11/9/07, Kenichi Handa wrote: > > But, unicode branch will be merged into the trunk before the > > release based on the trunk code. So, I think it is better > > to start using utf-8 now. > This is a bug fix; it should go into the EMACS_22_BASE branch too. Ah. > So the question is, are the chars that Emacs 22.2 does not > know how to encode in utf-8 relevant, or, as Jason said, > are they unlikely to appear in filenames? I think it's very unlike that people use such a character that is unencodable by Emacs22's utf-8 in a filename. --- Kenichi Handa handa@ni.aist.go.jp