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cannot build in a directory with non-ascii characters

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Message #49 received at 15260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: handa <at> gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 15260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15260: cannot build in a directory with non-ascii characters
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 23:04:49 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,  Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org>,  15260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:15:06 -0400
> 
> Sounds like a fair bit of work, for something that doesn't seem very
> important.

It might be important for people who build Emacs on non-English
language systems.

> If my testing was correct, the problem only occurs during
> building, not after Emacs is installed (does that tally with what you
> found?).

It definitely happens when building.  I didn't look deep enough to see
what happens once Emacs is installed.  The code is definitely wrong.

> And I can't see any reason why anyone _needs_ to build Emacs in
> a directory with non-ASCII chars. 

It might be a natural thing in some quarters.  E.g., Emacs sources
might be a subdirectory of some parent directory with a non-ASCII name
where many other packages are built.

Anyway, if the project thinks it's not important enough, I have better
things to do.

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