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Mac port: startup failure when in non-ASCII path


From: David Reitter
Subject: Mac port: startup failure when in non-ASCII path
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 09:28:09 +0000

Emacs (Carbon port) is unable to deal with path names that contain non-ASCII characters.

Symptoms:

If a (self-containing) Emacs.app is put in

/Applications/Emacs ƒ/

or

/Applications/Emacs ö/


Emacs won't start up. Starting the binary inside the bundle directly yields the error message

Cannot open load file: term/mac-win

which becomes

Cannot open load file: disp-table

when started  with -batch.

This is last night's Emacs CVS (and an older compile as well), running on OS X 10.4.3.

Note that the first option for the directory name (ƒ) is actually a not untypical choice for Mac users (for history reasons). An actual Aquamacs user has reported a startup failure, which turned out to be due to his choice of path name.



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