From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: kzhr@d1.dion.ne.jp, michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multibyte and unibyte file names
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:06:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzjzyt9it.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83obgel94c.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:38:11 +0200")
>> > So you are saying that each primitive should detect unibyte file names
>> > it gets as arguments and DECODE_FILE them right away?
>> I think not: I was talking about decoding the file names *returned*
>> by primitives.
> What would be the difference, from the POV of the callers of the
> primitives?
That the callers get to see meaningful (decoded) names?
That file-name manipulation functions don't have the side effect of
encoding/decoding file names?
> If there is no difference, what I suggested is easier to implement,
> because it eliminates the need to test whether a given file name is
> multibyte (and needs to be encoded) or not, before handing the file
> names to system APIs.
I don't see why it eliminates this need: file-exists-p can still be
called with multibyte and unibyte strings.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-25 0:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-23 17:45 Multibyte and unibyte file names Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-23 18:08 ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-23 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-23 23:38 ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-23 19:42 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-23 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-23 20:58 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-24 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-23 21:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-24 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-24 18:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-24 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-25 0:06 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-01-25 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-25 11:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-25 20:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-25 22:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-26 10:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-26 11:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-26 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-26 22:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-27 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-27 8:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-01-27 9:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-28 1:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-28 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-28 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-02 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-26 13:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-26 3:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-26 11:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-26 13:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-26 13:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-26 16:26 ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-26 18:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-26 17:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-26 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-26 18:06 ` Paul Eggert
2013-01-26 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-26 18:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-26 21:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-26 21:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-27 6:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-26 16:05 ` Richard Stallman
2013-01-26 17:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-26 22:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-24 10:00 ` Michael Albinus
2013-01-24 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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