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Re: Foreign file names on MS-Windows
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Foreign file names on MS-Windows |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:32:13 +0200 |
> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:21:10 +0100
> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Now the important question I promised at the beginning: Should we
> > install this change on the release branch? Here are the pros and cons
> > that I could think of for this decision:
> >
> > Cons:
> >
> > . It is too close to release for such non-trivial changes.
> >
> > . The affected primitives are used in lots of places, and this
> > change could break them, and the Lisp code that uses them.
> >
> > . This problem exists in Emacs for a long time, so it's not a big
> > deal if it continues to exist some more (until resolved in Emacs
> > 23).
> >
> > . The suggested solution is only partial, and the resulting file
> > names are UGLY.
> >
> > Pros:
> >
> > . The bug is quite grave: it causes real data loss.
> >
> > . Whatever code uses the affected primitives is probably already
> > broken.
> >
> > . The change is very simple, so the probability of it being buggy
> > is very low (but please eyeball the diffs below to make it lower
> > still).
>
> Does the problem affect only W9x systems? Does the patch only affect them?
No, on the contrary: this problem cannot at all happen on W9x, unless
they have the Unicode add-on installed. If they do have it, I think
the change will affect them as well. But currently, it affects mainly
the newer versions: W2K, XP, and Vista that use NTFS as their main
filesystems.