Re: fixing url-unhex-string for unicode/multi-byte charsets

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 09:59:02 -0500
> 
> >  (dolist (str '("hello%20world"
> >                 "%d7%a9%d7%9c%d7%95%d7%9d%20%d7%a2%d7%95%d7%9c%d7%9d"))
> >    (insert (decode-coding-string (url-unhex-string str)
> >                                  (or file-name-coding-system
> >                                      default-file-name-coding-system))
> >            "\n"))
> >
> > The result of evaluating this is two lines inserted into the current
> > buffer:
> >
> >   hello world
> >   שלום עולם
> >
> > If this doesn't work for you, or if you tried something slightly
> > different, I'd like to hear the details, perhaps there's some
> > subtlety I'm missing.
> 
> My guess is that his `file-name-coding-system` is set to something
> different from utf-8.
> [ BTW, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the Freedesktop spec
>   documents that the file names in the Trash should use utf-8, in which
>   case the code should hard-code utf-8 rather than use
>   `file-name-coding-system` ;-)  ]

If the trash spec says it must be UTF-8, then yes, TRT is to use that
unconditionally.  But if the spec says nothing, I'd expect the file
names to be in whatever encoding they were on disk, which usually
should coincide with file-name-coding-system.