Re: Fcall_process: wrong conversion

[Herbert Euler]

> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> To: "Herbert Euler" <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Fcall_process: wrong conversion
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 15:26:54 +0900
>
> >> > I.e. if the file is in japanese-shift-jis, but command argument is in
> >> > chinese-gbk, encoding arguments will make sure all characters are in
> >> > japanese-shift-jis, won't it?
> >>
> >> I don't understand what "if ..." part actually means.  Who
> >> makes command argument in chinese-gbk?
>
> > For example, I wrote a lisp command which uses `call-process' and
> > contains characters in chinese-gbk as arguments.  I meant, when
> > I apply this command to a japanese-shift-jis file, `call-process' will
> > encode the chinese-gbk characters to japanese-shift-jis in background,
> > won't it?
>
> It's hard to understand what you mean.  What do you mean by
> "apply this command to ... file"?  Does it mean that you
> give the file name to call-process as INFILE argument?  But,
> how does it result in "encode the chinese-gbk characters to
> japanese-shift-jis"?  Emacs doesn't detect the encoding of
> INFILE.  So how does Emacs know about `japanese-shift-jis'
> first of all?
>
> And first of all, CVS Emacs doesn't have chinese-gbk coding
> system.  Are you talking about the behavior of
> emacs-unicode-2?

Encodings here are just examples; I should use them as
encoding A and B.  And my opinion is wrong, I don't know
all the real behavior of `call-process', I thought arguments
will be encoded to the file encoding.

Regards,
Guanpeng Xu

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