Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> But it will fail in Emacs-22 if the file (which contains file names)
>> contains chars that Emacs-22 doesn't know how to encode to (and decode
>> from) utf-8.
> Are there any such chars that are likely to be used in filenames? Or is it
> just the mule specific charsets that Emacs-22 cannot encode as utf-8.

It's actually a bit worse: it shouldn't just be encodable with utf-8,
but it should also be the case that encoding to utf-8 and back should
return the exact same string (since these are filenames and will be
compared with simple byte-comparison in the kernel).


        Stefan