Emacs won't start when in certain paths

[David Reitter]

NB, this is a long-known bug.  I believe it's been diagnosed.  Has  
anything been done about it?
(The message to stderr when started manually from a terminal is  
"Cannot open load file: term/mac-win", but there is absolutely no  
error message given to an end user.)
(The patch to files.el resulting from the thread "Emacs fails to start  
properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs  
filesystem" has been installed in 22, and the problem persists.  The  
error message above indicates that this is happening much earlier  
anyways.)

This is a serious bug.  It's perfectly normal for a (non-English  
speaking) user to install Emacs in a folder such as "Développement".   
Emacs then just crashes without an indication about what's wrong.



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Luis Mota <address@hidden>
> Date: 3 June 2008 01:13:26 BST
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Aquamacs-bugs] (no subject)
>
> When the application is placed in some folder inside Applications, and
> that folder name has some unusual character (like ó), the application
> won't start.
>
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.1.91.2 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0, Carbon Version  
> 1.6.0)
>  of 2008-02-23 on applecore.inf.ed.ac.uk - Aquamacs Distribution 1.3b
> Windowing system distributor `Apple Inc.', version 10.5.2
> configured using `configure  '--without-x' '--prefix=/usr/local''
>
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: nil
>   locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Text
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   savehist-mode: t
>   aquamacs-styles-mode: t
>   smart-frame-positioning-mode: t
>   recentf-mode: t
>   encoded-kbd-mode: t
>   osx-key-mode: t
>   show-paren-mode: t
>   delete-selection-mode: t
>   pc-selection-mode: t
>   cua-mode: t
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   mac-input-method-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: 0
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
>   utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   column-number-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
>
> Recent input:
> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug
> -report>