Re: 23.0.60; Can't start emacs when filename contains national character

[YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu]

>>>>> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:47:19 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> said:

>> I recommend to stay as far away from
>> string-to/as/make-unit/multibyte as possible.  Use
>> en/decode-coding-string instead.

> That's what I did eventually.  I tried to be smart at first, to
> maybe avoid the overhead of full-fledged decoding, but gave up and
> used DECODE_FILE instead.

Encoding/decoding should be used with care because they may cause GC
and thus string data relocation.  Actually, your fix has the same
problem as I pointed out in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-03/msg00026.html

                                     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
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