GNU bug report logs - #15260
cannot build in a directory with non-ascii characters

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 17:47:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.3

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 15260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#15260: cannot build in a directory with non-ascii characters
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 00:28:36 -0400

> But here's where things get hairy: when temacs starts, preloaded Lisp
> files are not yet loaded, and consequently file-name-coding-system and
> default-file-name-coding-system are both nil.  In such a case,
> currently DECODE_FILE is a no-op.

I don't understand why it wouldn't work to just treat those strings as
"binary" (i.e. keep them undecoded in unibyte strings).  Then encoding
would be a noop and that should hence end up in the right byte-sequence
sent to the OS primitives.


        Stefan
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