Re: on eshell's encoding

[Yuri Khan]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> It's actually worse than that: the Windows locale implementation
> doesn't support variable-length encodings

It sort of does, as long as the variable in question never exceeds 2.
See, for example, cp932.

> so UTF-8 cannot be a
> locale's encoding, unless MS change their related runtime libraries in
> a radical way.