bug#15337: 24.3.50; [PATCH] cd to directory name with french accent fail from term/ansi-term

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:57:24 +0200
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el
> index f9ff3c9..a27bb06 100644
> --- a/lisp/files.el
> +++ b/lisp/files.el
> @@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ The path separator is colon in GNU and GNU-like systems."
>      (setq cd-path (or (parse-colon-path (getenv "CDPATH"))
>                        (list "./"))))
>    (cd-absolute
> -   (or (locate-file dir cd-path nil
> +   (or (locate-file (decode-coding-string dir locale-coding-system) cd-path 
> nil
>                      (lambda (f) (and (file-directory-p f) 'dir-ok)))
>         (error "No such directory found via CDPATH environment variable"))))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

How come cd-path got a value that is a unibyte string?  If it came
from getenv, then that function explicitly decodes the values.

IOW, please dig deeper and tell where did the unibyte string in
cd-path come from, because I don't see why would it be TRT to decode
it where you suggest; perhaps I'm missing something.