Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> > I think the important thing is to assure the round-trip of
> > decode&encode (not encode&decode).

> Are you sure?  The situation is that we have a file name as an Emacs
> string (i.e. decoded say from "locale" coding system) and we need to
> store it into a file to load it back in a later Emacs invocation (at
> which point we may use it to access the file, using hopefully the same
> "locale" coding system).

> So what needs to be byte-preserving is really:

>   locale-decode -> utf8-encode -> utf8-decode -> locale-encode

Ah, I misunderstood the situation, sorry.  You are right.

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Kenichi Handa
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