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bug#44513: default value of file-name-coding-system
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#44513: default value of file-name-coding-system |
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Date: |
Sun, 08 Nov 2020 13:29:13 +0200 |
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On November 8, 2020 11:15:50 AM GMT+02:00, Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
wrote:
> Shouldn't emacs ship with the default value of variable
> file-name-coding-system being equal to that of the default value of
> default-file-name-coding-system?
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> file-name-coding-system => nil
> (default-value file-name-coding-system) => nil
> default-file-name-coding-system => utf-8-unix
These are 2 separate variables, see the doc string of
default-file-name-coding-system. One is for the user to set, thus nil by
default, the other is what Emacs thinks should be the OS default. They are
separate because Unix filesystems traditionally treat file names as byte
streams, without imposing any encoding restrictions on them.