Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:41:39 +0100
> 
> I guess the most important question is: which coding system is used
> for values of environment variables?

Something locale-dependent, I guess.

We could also try guessing the encoding, since a typical process
environment is a substantial chunk of text (so a probability of an
error is not very high, I think).

> And what happens if you do (setenv foo bar) and bar is a string which
> can't be encoded in the coding system specified for environment
> variables?

How is this different from hitting the same problem inside
write-region or save-buffer?