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Re: shell-quote-argument and multibyte


From: Benjamin Riefenstahl
Subject: Re: shell-quote-argument and multibyte
Date: 14 Apr 2003 00:02:17 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2

Hi Lars,

Lars Hansen <address@hidden> writes:
> I dired one can specify a list of external viewers. This is a nice
> new feature. However, there is a problem, at least on Windows, when
> there are special characters in the file name. I don't know where
> the problem should be fixed, but I do know that it disapears if
> string-make-unibyte is called on ARGUMENT in shell-quote-argument.

I would guess you rather want something like this to be generic:

  (decode-coding-string ARGUMENT
                        (or file-name-coding-system
                            default-file-name-coding-system))

so long, benny





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