Re: Multibyte and unibyte file names

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 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?

I think not: I was talking about decoding the file names *returned*
by primitives.


        Stefan