Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Please try building Emacs from a pristine tarball or a clean
> repository in a directory with non-ASCII characters, under a
> non-UTF-8, non-C locale.  If that works, I think this is good to go.

All the tools under Linux are so utf-8-focused these days...  let's
see...  I first, under a utf-8 locale created the directory "émacs",
then converted it to 8859-1:

[larsi@stories ~/src/emacs]$ convmv --notest -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 émacs 
mv "./émacs"	"./�macs"

Which ls displays, funnily enough, as:

-rw-r--r--  1 larsi larsi    0 Sep 10 14:50 ''$'\351''macs'

Then I did

export LANG=sv_SE.ISO-8859-1
export LANG=sv_SE.ISO-8859-1

and now the ls says the file is: