Re: detecting charset of directories

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Kevin Rodgers <address@hidden> writes:
> > Detecting a coding system of filenames in a directory is
> > difficult to implement, but it won't be that difficult to
> > respect a coding system explicitly specified by C-x C-m c
> > for dired.  Perhaps, it can be done by locally setting
> > file-name-coding-system of that buffer and making
> > dired-revert to pay attention to that value.

> `C-x C-m c' temporarily binds coding-system-for-read and
> coding-system-for-write, so wouldn't it be more transparent to locally
> set those variables (in dired-mode, where the other buffer-local
> variables are set)?

Those variables are mainly for let-binding by programs.
Directly setting them may leads to a problem.  For instance,
qM-x shell-command invoded from that buffer will use those
values.

> Also, how can one ensure that `C-x m c CODING-SYSTEM g' will (1) have
> its intended effect and (2) persist its effect, for subsequent `g'
> commands?

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean.  Could you please
paraphrase it?

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Kenichi Handa
address@hidden