Re: ISO-8859-1 encoded file names and UTF-8

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>>  I don't understand the question.  What would it mean to say this is
>>  true?

>     Changing the encoding of filename means that chaning the
>     byte sequence of the name.  For OS, that is just chaning the
>     filename.  And, my sample code recode-file actually calls
>     rename-file internally.

> Ok, I guess this is a special case of changing the file name.

> Why do you ask?

The above is an OS's point of view.  Users may not consider
that changing filename encoding is a special case of
rename-file.  Even for you, the explanation was necessary.

So, I wanted to hear other people's opinions about which is
better; enhancing the existing rename-file directly (perhaps
by making use of the prefix argument), or making a new
command recode-file-name.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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