Re: Multibyte and unibyte file names

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, Kazuhiro Ito <address@hidden>,
>         Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:09:18 -0500
> 
> I think that for w32 it makes sense to try and always decode file names
> before returning them to Elisp:
> Most file names passed to Elisp primitives are derived from file names
> returned by Elisp primitives, so if Emacs decodes all the file names it
> returns to Elisp, we can expect to see *very* few encoded file names
> passed to Elisp primitives.

So you are saying that each primitive should detect unibyte file names
it gets as arguments and DECODE_FILE them right away?  We would also
need to modify all the C code that calls the primitives directly and
passes them encoded file names.  Did I understand your suggestion
correctly?