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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > My guess is that his `file-name-coding-system` is set to something
>> > different from utf-8.
>
> That's correct, kind of. The setting isn't 'mine', its the emacs
> default. In both emacs 26.1 (debian) and emacs-snapshot (v28),
> file-name-coding-system defaults to nil, and
> default-file-name-coding-system defaults to utf-8-unix, so we have:
>
>                  file-name-coding-system  => nil
>   (default-value file-name-coding-system) => nil
>          default-file-name-coding-system  => utf-8-unix

This means your file name coding system *is* set to utf-8, so that
doesn't explain the problem.

>    "The value type for this key is “string”; it SHOULD store the file
>    name as the sequence of bytes produced by the file system, with
>    characters escaped as in URLs (as defined by RFC 2396, section 2)."

Thanks.  So we should indeed obey `file-name-coding-system`.


        Stefan