bug#81606: Mojibake with UTF-8 file names

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: Colin Baxter <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected],  [email protected],  [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:24:51 +0100
> 
> >>>>> Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>     >>>> And I still don't think we have a consensus regarding the fix
>     >>>> for latexenc.el: do we want to decode using UTF-8 or
>     >>>> 'undecided'?
>     >>> 
>     >>> My preference is in this message:
>     >>> 
>     >>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2026-08/msg00877.html
>     >>> 
>     >>> The second paragraph should read:
>     >>> 
>     >>> My vote is to go for the utf-8 variant since LaTeX is pushing
>     >>> users in that direction anyways and newer engines like LuaTeX
>     >>> require it.
>     >> 
>     >> Yes, I know.  But I'd like to hear at least one more opinion,
>     >> perhaps Werner could chime in?
> 
>     > I also favour UTF-8 encoding as the default.  BTW, thanks to both
>     > on your for working on this!
> 
> What happens if a user sets latexenc-dont-use-TeX-master-flag to true
> and has no inputencoding statement or inputenc package set?

What I proposed has no effect if latexenc-dont-use-TeX-master-flag is
non-nil, because the changes are inside the condition that it is nil.
So I don't quite understand what bothers you.

> If "undecided" is changed to "utf-8" then presumably that option is
> set by default.

What is "that option" here?

> The user would need to know this.

Know what?

> Why not leave latexenc.el as it is?

"Leave as it is" meaning with the bug reported by Arash?  You don't
want the bug fixed?

Sorry, I'm confused.
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