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: Encoding for a file containing filenames? Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:32:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194539563 30828 80.91.229.12 (8 Nov 2007 16:32:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 16:32:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 08 17:32:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IqAJD-00030U-Ic for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:32:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IqAJ2-0003bp-5s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:32:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IqAIx-0003WH-Jr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:32:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IqAIv-0003Qx-VV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:32:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IqAIv-0003Qj-Gb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:32:29 -0500 Original-Received: from tomts25.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.188] helo=tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IqAIv-000552-35 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:32:29 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.53.194.136]) by tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20071108163227.EYFX19497.tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home> for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:32:27 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 58BF37FC8; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:32:27 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Thu\, 8 Nov 2007 16\:05\:08 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:82809 Archived-At: > However, I'm having second thoughts. Wouldn't be safer to use an > encoding that can save anything, like emacs-mule? Should it depend on > the setting of default-enable-multibyte-characters? Yes. I'd recommend utf-8 (good for the future) or emacs-mule (good for the present). Stefan