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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.