Re: Strange behaviour with dired and UTF8

[Jan D.]

lördagen den 3 maj 2003 kl 17.03 skrev Richard Stallman:

>     I think I understand now.  You mean if dired uses UTF8, and file 
> system
>     coding is Latin-1,
>
> Why would Dired use UTF8 if the file name encoding is Latin-1?
> Is this because the user set up perverse settings?
> Or is there some natural, normal set of options
> for which this would occur?

The situiation I have is that there are directories with file names in
different encodings.  Latin-1 is most frequent, which is why I say
file name encoding is latin-1.  But some directories contain other
encodings, UTF-8 among them.  Some of these are on network file
systems, so I have no control over them.  But I would like to
be able to view them in Emacs.

I guess UTF-8 will win out in the end, but there are a lot of old
systems around.

        Jan D.