Re: Multibyte and unibyte file names

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Stefan Monnier writes:

 > I think if we only support "sequences of bytes" (unibyte strings)

What justifies the effort of supporting unibyte?  Nobody writes
byte-shoveling applications like high-performance network servers in
Emacs Lisp and nobody is likely to start doing so.  High-performance
text processing needs to deal with characters, so you're not really
losing anything.

 > That seems like a real bug, tho:
 > 
 >    (let ((file-name-coding-system 'shift-jis))
 >      (expand-file-name "表" "C:/"))
 > 
 > should not return "c:/\225/".

OMG.