From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multibyte and unibyte file names Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:44:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83ehhbn680.fsf@gnu.org> <83wqv2ldk1.fsf@gnu.org> <83obgel94c.fsf@gnu.org> <83k3r1lnlb.fsf@gnu.org> <83vcalj97s.fsf@gnu.org> <87vcak3ar1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83mwvwjib3.fsf@gnu.org> <87sj5o2j1b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83ham4jcbf.fsf@gnu.org> <87mwvv3m5d.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83ehh7kfwc.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359236706 3129 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2013 21:45:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:45:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 26 22:45:23 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TzDYv-0004jt-JU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:45:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47301 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzDYe-0000Vp-0O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:45:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzDYa-0000UT-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:45:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzDYZ-00009m-O9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:45:00 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp206.alice.it ([82.57.200.102]:49590) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzDYY-00009I-7k; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:44:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (82.107.57.105) by smtp206.alice.it (8.6.058.01) id 508F91B90D4D9FE6; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:44:57 +0100 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 16E2DAE3F4; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:44:55 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83ehh7kfwc.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:33:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.102 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:156670 Archived-At: > No such coding standards in Emacs, and the C code does manipulate > unibyte strings as long as they don't need to be passed to Lisp. > I suggested converting to internal representation at entry to all > primitives in this thread, but it looks like Stefan disagrees, or at > least not completely agrees. Indeed, I may not completely agree, but I think I don't really know what is your suggestion because "entry to all primitives" is too vague (I obviously misunderstood it at first, and even now that I know that it doesn't mean what I thought it meant, I still don't really know what it means). Stefan