Re: 23.0.60; Can't start emacs when filename contains national character

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:15:47 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, Sven Joachim <address@hidden>,
>       address@hidden
> 
> > That probably means I used the wrong to/make-multibyte function to fix
> > the problem.  Will look into it, thanks.
> 
> I recommend to stay as far away from string-to/as/make-unit/multibyte
> as possible.  Use en/decode-coding-string instead.

That's what I did eventually.  I tried to be smart at first, to maybe
avoid the overhead of full-fledged decoding, but gave up and used
DECODE_FILE instead.