Subject: bug#15260: cannot build in a directory with non-ascii characters

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:33:04 -0400

> Would you prefer that we error out of default-directory is not a
> unibyte string at that point in loadup.el?

I'd prefer to either not do anything, or issue a warning, or error
out, yes.

        Stefan