Stefan Kangas writes: Hi Stefan, > Absolutely. On current master (commit f87ace2aed), I'm now seeing: > > 3 unexpected results: > FAILED tramp-test41-utf8 > FAILED tramp-test41-utf8-with-ls > FAILED tramp-test41-utf8-with-perl Well, so we've fixed tramp-test19-directory-files-and-attributes at least. Progress! > Test tramp-test41-utf8 condition: > (search-failed "^VAR_971C287AFA5BBEDD54ACB58B1CE718B4=Γυρίστε το Γαλαξία με Ώτο Στοπ$") > FAILED 58/67 tramp-test41-utf8 (35.618526 sec) Hmm, the string is still decomposed. Let's give it a last try, writing some traces. Could you pls apply the patch, and send the result. You could call make -C test lisp/net/tramp-tests.log SELECTOR='tramp-test41-utf8'