Re: Several small bugs with Swedish Ä in path na mes

[Lennart Borgman]

Jason Rumney wrote:

> 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.
>  
chcp says 437.

I have been testing several combinations of the code pages:

   (setq process-coding-system-alist (cons (cons "cmd\\.exe\\'" (cons 
'cp1252 'cp437)) nil))

I have tried 437 - 1252 too and just one of them. None of these works. 
Can you please give me another suggestion to test?