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bug#8517: Can't handle utf8 encoded filenames in locale 'de_DE.utf8'
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Rob Browning |
Subject: |
bug#8517: Can't handle utf8 encoded filenames in locale 'de_DE.utf8' |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:02:58 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
(If possible, please preserve the 611396-forwarded address in any replies.)
Gernot Kieseritzky writes:
> Opening an existing file named "ÖÄÜß.txt" does not work, instead,
> Emacs creates a new buffer with the same name (reported correctly)
> which is empty. After saving the file name is corrupted displaying as
> "???.txt" on the console. Nautilus reports a "wrong encoding" and
> equally display three question marks instead of the "Umlauts". In
> contrast, in Ubuntu 10.04 utf8 encoded file names create no problems
> for Emacs.
It turns out that the problem was being caused by this call from .emacs:
(current-language-environment "German")
which appears to make Emacs prefer latin-1.
I wasn't sure if this should be considered an actual problem, or just a
configuration error, so I thought I should forward it.
Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611396 for
further details.
Thanks
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Rob Browning
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