On Fri, 26 May 2000, Pete Forman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Kai Großjohann writes:
> > Pete Forman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I thought we were trying to cut down on traffic. Wouldn't
> > > something like "echo foo; echo bar" be adequate.
> >
> > The idea is that `ls -l /' will produce date values in the local
> > format of the remote host. `echo foo; echo bar' just produces
> > ascii characters.
[...]
> Again I'm unsure as to whether you're looking for date or EOL
> conventions. I don't use MULE.
Right. This is a niceness for those who do: what we want is to guess
(or, rather, intuit) the correct coding system for remote file names.
That way when a user enters a file name into Emacs (where it is iso-2022
encoded), it gets translated to the right encoding on the remote machine
(which may be shift-jis, koi8-r, utf-8 or some other strange and
wonderful encoding).
Without doing this, you will get very odd results when you try to open
files and the like.
Er, have I made it clearer what is being tried here?
Daniel
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