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-rw-r--r--lisp/startup.el14
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
index 9d16b59defd..33f8ca63f8d 100644
--- a/lisp/startup.el
+++ b/lisp/startup.el
@@ -552,9 +552,17 @@ It is the default value of the variable `top-level'."
(if default-directory
(setq default-directory
(if (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
- ;; Convert backslashes to forward slashes.
- (expand-file-name
- (decode-coding-string default-directory coding t))
+ ;; We pass the decoded default-directory as
+ ;; the 2nd arg to expand-file-name to make
+ ;; sure it sees a multibyte string as the
+ ;; default directory; this avoids the side
+ ;; effect of returning a unibyte string from
+ ;; expand-file-name because it still sees
+ ;; the undecoded value of default-directory.
+ (let ((defdir (decode-coding-string default-directory
+ coding t)))
+ ;; Convert backslashes to forward slashes.
+ (expand-file-name defdir defdir))
(decode-coding-string default-directory coding t))))))
;; Decode all the important variables and directory lists, now