From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string? Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 15:03:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zi0llisj.fsf@mbork.pl> <20180527073645.GB17354@tuxteam.de> <87y3g5l1h0.fsf@mbork.pl> <87sh67de6u.fsf@mbork.pl> <83bmcvhld6.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527793309 32003 195.159.176.226 (31 May 2018 19:01:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 19:01:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 31 21:01:45 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fOSpU-0008BT-LB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 21:01:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOSrb-0006CG-Pn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 15:03:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56450) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOSr6-0006A1-DB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 15:03:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOSr2-0001s3-Ey for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 15:03:24 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:42446) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOSr2-0001qd-AS; Thu, 31 May 2018 15:03:20 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w4VJ3en6018765; Thu, 31 May 2018 15:03:40 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 9CAF3652E9; Thu, 31 May 2018 15:03:16 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83bmcvhld6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 31 May 2018 18:53:57 +0300") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6298=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6298> : inlines <6671> : streams <1788355> : uri <2650402> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116928 Archived-At: >> > I really strongly recommend you try to solve this problem by doing >> > nothing: keep the name in its full glory. Nowadays users *should* >> > expect this to work. >> It's tempting, but no: these files will eventually be sent to >> e.g. people on Windows XP and the like. I don't want to take risks of >> unreadable filenames. > > Windows nowadays supports the full Unicode range of characters in file > names, To clarify: the "nowadays" includes Windows XP. Stefan