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Re: Several small bugs with Swedish Ä in path names


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: Several small bugs with Swedish Ä in path names
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:25:18 +0000

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 22:42 +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:

> Doing chcp 1252 in the interactive shell running cmd.exe helps a little 
> bit. Swedish Ä is now shown as just that letter. However it is not 
> recognized on input. Something strange is happening on input, both after 
> and before chcp 1252. If I type
> 
>      prompt> cd Ä (swedish letter A with two dots above) TAB
> 
> then this is completed to Ägaren/. After typing return I get
> 
>      cd Ägaren/
>      The system can not find the path specified

Windows won't like the / at the end of the directory name (it expects \
instead). Is that what the problem is?

> I can not see any difference after (setq process-coding-system-alist 
> (cons (cons "cmd\\.exe\\'"  'cp850) nil)).

I was guessing cp850, but that might be wrong for Swedish Windows. chcp
with no arguments should tell you what the default codepage is.





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