RE: Full Unicode Pathnames

Benson Margulies writes: Same as for everywhere else. Ibytes are internal encoding, which is a universal encoding used everywhere by Emacs Lisp (in Mule). Even "binary" is encoded internally. Extbytes are platform chars, and the encoding is your problem; XEmacs will not help you with that. Thus the strategy is to change all external text to Ibytes immediately on reading into XEmacs, and all Ibytes to Extbytes as the very last operation before doing output. No, "Ibyte" stands for "Internal bytes of text". For historical (and GNU compatibility) reasons, the internal code used by XEmacs for strings and buffers is "Mule encoding", which is a variable-width encoding with all of the nice properties of UTF-8 except that it's not algorithmically convertible to Unicode. For your purposes, just think of it as an opaque coding that must be translated before sending to Windows. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta