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Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:18:57 -0500 |
> > And what happens if you do (setenv foo bar) and bar is a string which
> > can't be encoded in the coding system specified for environment
> > variables?
What currently happens is that foo gets the internal (i.e. emacs-mule)
encoding of bar, which is more or less guaranteed to be the wrong thing
to do. So whatever change we make, it won't be much worse than the
current state of affairs.
We could of course require foo and bar to be unibyte strings so as to
force caller to do the encoding.
Stefan
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Richard Stallman, 2003/01/17
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Kenichi Handa, 2003/01/19
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Richard Stallman, 2003/01/20
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Dave Love, 2003/01/21
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Richard Stallman, 2003/01/23
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Dave Love, 2003/01/23
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Richard Stallman, 2003/01/25
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Ehud Karni, 2003/01/25
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Kai Großjohann, 2003/01/26
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/01/26
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Kenichi Handa, 2003/01/26
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Richard Stallman, 2003/01/26
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Dave Love, 2003/01/28
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Dave Love, 2003/01/28
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Dave Love, 2003/01/27
- Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Dave Love, 2003/01/26
Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion, Dave Love, 2003/01/21