Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 09:56:16 +0900 (JST)
> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> 
> But, I think it's also the general idea of Emacs to
> decode/encode characters automatically.  As far as we expose
> process-environment, the strings in it should already be
> decoded.

I agree.  Text strings exposed to Lisp programs should be in the
internal representation, i.e. decoded.  Otherwise, Lisp programs would
be unable to easily use them in text-processing context.