Re: shell-quote-argument and multibyte

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Kai,


address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Now, suppose you have a string x which is a filename.  Then you
> encode that string into the corresponding filename encoding, which
> just happens to be an encoding which uses ESC.  And then you pass
> the whole shebang to shell-quote-argument which will then happily
> escape the ESC for you.

I may be missing something, but why is ESC especially a problem?
Shouldn't shell-quote-argument do just exactly those modifications
that the shell will undo?  So that the combination of
shell-quote-argument and the actual parsing of the command-line in the
shell is a no-op?


so long, benny