>>>>> "David" == David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> The operating system does no conversions,
That may or may not be true, and if true it may not be relevant.
On Mac OS X filenames are UTF-8, period, as far as I can tell. If the
sequence of bytes you hand it are not UTF-8, it will refuse to create
a file by that name, etc. A file named "outré" in Latin 1 can't be
saved on the Mac (at least, not by XEmacs with file-name-coding-system
set to ISO 8859-1); you have to translate it to UTF-8 (which does
work).
This is just a lose-lose situation, and all we can do is try to
minimize the loss.
I think your strategy is as good as any other simple one, except that
you're comfortable with it, which makes it "best". :-)
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