Re: shell-quote-argument and multibyte

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Lars,


Lars Hansen <address@hidden> writes:
> I dired one can specify a list of external viewers. This is a nice
> new feature. However, there is a problem, at least on Windows, when
> there are special characters in the file name. I don't know where
> the problem should be fixed, but I do know that it disapears if
> string-make-unibyte is called on ARGUMENT in shell-quote-argument.

Isn't this a place to use file-name-coding-system?  Like

  (decode-coding-string ARGUMENT
                        (or file-name-coding-system
                            default-file-name-coding-system))

Or something similar. 


so long, benny