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Re: menu-find-file-existing' can't open file with non-ascii filename


From: Jan D.
Subject: Re: menu-find-file-existing' can't open file with non-ascii filename
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:38:59 +0100 (CET)

> I have reported this bug to the emacs-devel mail list several days
> ago. It seems it is vanished into the flood.
> 
> `read-file-name' returns an undecoded filename if it was invoked with
> the mouse, but returns a decoded filename if it was invoked with
> the keyboard.
> 
> If it is an undecoded non-ascii filename, (file-directory-p filename)
> or something like that will report `t' falsely, that cause the file
> can't be opened.
> 
> I think the `x-file-dialog' function should return a decoded filename,
> rather an undecoded filename.

Checked in, thanks.  Although I am not sure it is always correct for GTK
as GTK does some decoding itself.  Exactly what it does has always been a
mystery to me, it looks kind of random :-).

        Jan D.





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