Re: environment variable don't get coding conversion

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>     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.

> This would be true ordinarily, but here there is a more important
> factor.  The usual thing to do with environment variables is to pass
> them through.  Making sure that is solidly reliable is the highest
> priority for environment variables.  Therefore we have to leave these
> strings in their original format.

For that, as I wrote before, we can attach a text-property
that contains the original unibyte string.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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