(init_buffer): Set current_buffer->directory to a

multibyte string made by string_to_multibyte.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/buffer.c b/src/buffer.c
index b3b0407803..2d93127246 100644
--- a/src/buffer.c
+++ b/src/buffer.c
@@ -5162,7 +5162,13 @@ init_buffer ()
     }
 #endif /* not VMS */
 
-  current_buffer->directory = build_string (buf);
+  current_buffer->directory = make_unibyte_string (buf, strlen (buf));
+  if (! NILP (buffer_defaults.enable_multibyte_characters))
+    /* At this momemnt, we still don't know how to decode the
+       direcotry name.  So, we keep the bytes in multibyte form so
+       that ENCODE_FILE correctly gets the original bytes.  */
+    current_buffer->directory
+      = string_to_multibyte (current_buffer->directory);
 
   /* Add /: to the front of the name
      if it would otherwise be treated as magic.  */