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bug#19463: 25.0.50; Files with special chars in the name cannot be writt


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#19463: 25.0.50; Files with special chars in the name cannot be written on MS Windows
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:32:03 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: 19463@debbugs.gnu.org
> 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.





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