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From: | Peter Dyballa |
Subject: | bug#4157: 23.1.50; faulty character characterisation for ä |
Date: | Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:50:53 +0200 |
Am 22.08.2009 um 06:09 schrieb Stefan Monnier:
When I launch GNU Emacs in an ISO Latin environment (env LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-15 LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-15 /usr/local/bin/emacs-23.1.50 -Q &) and display in dired a directory with entries from some month of March the "Mär" abbrevation for the German month name "März" isdisplayed as M\344r. C-u C-x = on this \344 reveals:Hmm... that looks like a problem in dired: the file names in the outputof `ls' should follow file-name-coding-system, whereas the rest of the output seem to use locale-coding-system. Coudl you check if that's indeed the case: - create a file from the Finder using accented latin-1 chars, as well as non-latin-1 chars). - look at it in your dired and tell us what you see.
In both locales the *file names* are correct and also detected as containing "composed characters," it's a problem with the file's month date. In the ISO-Latin encoding the ä character is not recognised as that entity and part of the ISO Latin encoding, but as something strange which can only be displayed in octal representation. In UTF-8 this does not happen.
Isearch for example finds the \344 characters only as C-s C-q 3 4 4 RET, while the character ä cannot be found (because composed, of a and ¨ and therefore a search for a succeeds, in both locales).
On a Darwin system, I very warmly recommend to stick to utf-8 coding systems for everything, since it should avoid such problems.
Yes, you're right. I was trying to work on a problem with a "Carbon Emacs" ...
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