Ar an ceathrú lá de mí Eanair, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: > Aidan Kehoe writes: > > > > I couldn't figure out how to convert the string with macros of 21.4 yet > > > --- maybe one of the 21.4 developers could give me some advice? > > > > UTF-8 is not available as a coding system by default on 21.4. One > > awkward way to work around that would be to check for non-ASCII in the > > strings, and only do the translation if a) there are non-ASCII > > characters and b) Ffind_coding_system (intern ("utf-8")) gives > > non-nil. > > Does this actually work correctly? That is, HFS+ will use a NK?FD > string for the file name. I think the file system code will normalize > if you pass it any valid UTF-8 string (this needs to be checked), It does. > but XEmacs will not be able to round-trip. We should check that that will > not cause problems. It will cause problems; it’s Mule-UCS, its mapping is incomplete. See every third message Uwe Brauer has been sending to -beta. On reflection, though, the 21.4 init code is not sensible in this respect, and file-name-coding-system will not normally be anything other than binary. It, or the file-name coding system alias, should be used, not utf-8.