From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r114483: * term/ns-win.el (ns-initialize-window-system): Set locale-coding-system
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 21:51:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmwmrjf67.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txh0qsbk.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:12:31 +0900")
>> IIUC the encoding used under Darwin for filenames is always utf-8.
> In practice, yes, in theory, no. *Darwin* is just a BSD *nix kernel
> (more precisely, FreeBSD kernel functions wrapped around a Mach
> microkernel), and at that level, they're just byte sequences. Mac OS
> X defaults to a file system which enforces UTF-8, that's all. But
> consider NFS mounts (whatever the remote system wants) and removable
> media (most often VFAT with some bogus Microsoft encoding).
Good to know, thanks. I had the impression that the utf-8 coding was
imposed at the API level rather than the filesystem level.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-03 1:51 UTC|newest]
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2013-09-30 18:36 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r114483: * term/ns-win.el (ns-initialize-window-system): Set locale-coding-system Stefan Monnier
2013-09-30 19:17 ` Jan Djärv
2013-09-30 22:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-01 18:28 ` Jan Djärv
2013-10-02 0:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-02 3:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-03 1:51 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-10-03 7:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-10-03 9:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-03 14:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-02 6:29 ` Jan Djärv
2013-10-03 1:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-03 17:18 ` Jan Djärv
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