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Encoding for a file containing filenames?
From: |
Juanma Barranquero |
Subject: |
Encoding for a file containing filenames? |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Nov 2007 16:05:08 +0100 |
A few days ago I installed in the trunk a patch for ido.el which
forces the ido history file (an elisp file containing several lists of
filenames and directories) to be saved in a given coding system and
that coding system recorded as a local variable.
At that moment I used
(or file-name-coding-system
default-file-name-coding-system)
because it seems logical to save filenames in the current filename
coding system.
However, I'm having second thoughts. Wouldn't be safer to use an
encoding that can save anything, like emacs-mule? Should it depend on
the setting of default-enable-multibyte-characters?
Juanma
- Encoding for a file containing filenames?,
Juanma Barranquero <=
- Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/11/08
- Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/11/08
- Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/11/08
- Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/11/08
- Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?, Jason Rumney, 2007/11/08
- Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/11/08
- Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/11/09
- Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?, Jan Djärv, 2007/11/09
- Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?, Andreas Schwab, 2007/11/09
- Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/11/09