Re: Multibyte and unibyte file names

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>     which on Windows means that, e.g.
>
>       (let ((file-name-coding-system 'cp1252))
>       (file-name-directory "/address@hidden:漢字/"))
>
>        => "/address@hidden:  /"
>
>    And there are other similar handlers in Tramp (e.g., the
>    file-name-nondirectory handler) which do the same.  IOW, they seem
>    to _assume_ that the corresponding "real" handler never needs to
>    encode the file name.  A false assumption.

I've just committed a patch to the trunk, which checks in
`tramp-tramp-file-p', whether file names are unibyte strings. If they
aren't, Tramp ceases to work. That's the best I can do for the moment.

Best regards, Michael.