Re: emacs misbehaves without --unibyte

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 29 May 2002, Miles Bader wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > Should we perhaps make no-conversion be the default value of 
> > file-name-coding-system, instead of nil?
> 
> I presume you mean, if there's no language environment.

Yes.

For some reason, many systems have file-name-coding-system set to nil by 
default (I never had time to find out why), which is bad mantra.

> Then people
> will always see non-ascii characters in filenames as octal escapes,
> which I guess is the best that can be done...

If they use standard-display-8bit, they might even see non-ASCII characters 
instead.