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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fixing url-unhex-string for unicode/multi-byte charsets
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2020 08:39:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1rh46ka4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201108091216.xug4neeem7iuayhq@E15-2016.optimum.net> (Boruch Baum's message of "Sun, 8 Nov 2020 04:12:16 -0500")

>> > My guess is that his `file-name-coding-system` is set to something
>> > different from utf-8.
>
> That's correct, kind of. The setting isn't 'mine', its the emacs
> default. In both emacs 26.1 (debian) and emacs-snapshot (v28),
> file-name-coding-system defaults to nil, and
> default-file-name-coding-system defaults to utf-8-unix, so we have:
>
>                  file-name-coding-system  => nil
>   (default-value file-name-coding-system) => nil
>          default-file-name-coding-system  => utf-8-unix

This means your file name coding system *is* set to utf-8, so that
doesn't explain the problem.

>    "The value type for this key is “string”; it SHOULD store the file
>    name as the sequence of bytes produced by the file system, with
>    characters escaped as in URLs (as defined by RFC 2396, section 2)."

Thanks.  So we should indeed obey `file-name-coding-system`.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-08 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-06  7:47 fixing url-unhex-string for unicode/multi-byte charsets Boruch Baum
2020-11-06  8:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 10:27   ` Boruch Baum
2020-11-06 12:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 12:28       ` Boruch Baum
2020-11-06 13:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 14:59           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06 15:04             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-08  9:12               ` Boruch Baum
2020-11-08 13:39                 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-11-08 15:07                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 14:38     ` Stefan Monnier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-11-06  7:54 Boruch Baum
2020-11-06  8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 10:34   ` Boruch Baum
2020-11-06 12:06     ` Eli Zaretskii

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