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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: getpwent, user-full-name and utf-8
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:37:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u8xdq5qwt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86zm66q5ov.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:58:08 +0100)

> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:58:08 +0100
> 
> I propose that we bite the bullet, assume a fixed external system
> encoding of utf-8 for such strings, and recode accordingly.

I'd rather assume that usernames are encoded in the locale's encoding,
not necessarily in UTF-8.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-21 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-21  9:58 getpwent, user-full-name and utf-8 David Kastrup
2007-03-21 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-03-21 20:51   ` David Kastrup
2007-03-22  2:30     ` Miles Bader
2007-03-22  7:01     ` Jan Djärv
2007-03-22  7:40       ` David Kastrup
2007-03-22  8:17         ` Jan Djärv
2007-03-22  9:06           ` Jan Djärv
2007-03-22  5:01 ` Richard Stallman

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