Subject: Re: bug#19463: 25.0.50; Files with special chars in the name cannot be written on MS Windows

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:32:03 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 22:55:13 +0100
> 
> > This is expected.  What exactly do you want us to do with this issue?
> > Unless we radically change the way we do file I/O (similarly to what
> > Cygwin does), which is a very large job, this issue cannot be
> > resolved.
> >
> > We simply should not use such file names on Windows.
> 
> At least we shall mention this restriction, for example in
> (info "(emacs) Windows Files")

I don't mind documenting it, but traditionally there was objection to
talking too much about Windows in our manuals.