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Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:

> But, I think it's also the general idea of Emacs to
> decode/encode characters automatically.  As far as we expose
> process-environment, the strings in it should already be
> decoded.  If we want undecoded string in it, we shouldn't
> expose it.

Yes, and setenv should be able to sanity-check its args.