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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:37:06 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [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.

I eventually opted for erroring out, mostly to be able to catch any
unforseen problems and use cases I missed.