Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 17:42:33 +0200
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> > I really strongly recommend you try to solve this problem by doing
> > nothing: keep the name in its full glory.  Nowadays users *should*
> > expect this to work.
> 
> It's tempting, but no: these files will eventually be sent to
> e.g. people on Windows XP and the like.  I don't want to take risks of
> unreadable filenames.

Windows nowadays supports the full Unicode range of characters in file
names, with a few exceptions that cannot happen in people's names
(like slash, null, ':', etc.).  Emacs on Windows even supports such
file names (since Emacs 24).