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Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:01:31 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> But it will fail in Emacs-22 if the file (which contains file names)
>> contains chars that Emacs-22 doesn't know how to encode to (and decode
>> from) utf-8.
> Are there any such chars that are likely to be used in filenames? Or is it
> just the mule specific charsets that Emacs-22 cannot encode as utf-8.

It's actually a bit worse: it shouldn't just be encodable with utf-8,
but it should also be the case that encoding to utf-8 and back should
return the exact same string (since these are filenames and will be
compared with simple byte-comparison in the kernel).


        Stefan




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