From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multibyte and unibyte file names Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:46:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <83ehhbn680.fsf@gnu.org> <83wqv2ldk1.fsf@gnu.org> <83obgel94c.fsf@gnu.org> <83k3r1lnlb.fsf@gnu.org> <83vcalj97s.fsf@gnu.org> <83r4l8jjtv.fsf@gnu.org> <83k3r0jd9r.fsf@gnu.org> <834ni3jefn.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359276409 14235 80.91.229.3 (27 Jan 2013 08:46:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kzhr@d1.dion.ne.jp, michael.albinus@gmx.de, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 27 09:47:04 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TzNtG-00006r-5q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:47:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36931 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzNsy-0007rq-HO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:46:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47174) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzNst-0007rZ-Qx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:46:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzNsr-0005R7-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:46:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:33558) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzNso-0005Q9-92; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:46:34 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3Yv6yc0WtQz4KK8S; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:46:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3Yv6yb3Fmpzbbcl; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:46:31 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Fh2xLQxEB8vK; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:45:46 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: fEj0VoLQ5S4ONxLM6cum9GuaqgzWX2RCUWNeK8qIvjg= Original-Received: from linux.local (ppp-88-217-112-170.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.112.170]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:46:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by linux.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 4912E1E5960; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:46:29 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: FEELINGS are cascading over me!!! In-Reply-To: <834ni3jefn.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:03:08 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 212.18.0.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:156682 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > What about C code that calls these primitives? It doesn't matter who calls them, they operate on decoded file names. > If so, we could stop catering to unibyte strings in these primitives, A pure ASCII string is unibyte by default, but that doesn't mean it is an encoded string. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."