From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 6974@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6974: Emacs doesn't like Swedish ä (on w32)
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 13:19:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinPGjTq=hUiz2Q6W88dfFmLdWrxmjyjkjpL_rcY@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vd6ni70e.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 23:58:04 +0200
>> Cc:
>>
>> * After M-x set-language-environment RET utf-8 RET and then opening a
>> new org file.
>>
>> When choosing the file the char "ä" is shown as \344. It looks the
>> same when inserted in the buffer as an org link to the file.
>
> set-language-environment changes the defaults for various
> coding-systems, including file-name-coding-system that's used for
> decoding file names. On Windows, you should _never_ have
> file-name-coding-system different from the current codepage, because
> that's the only encoding of file names Emacs can currently support on
> Windows. (The other one is UTF-16, which is how Windows encodes file
> names on the disk, but Emacs does not yet support that, because such
> support would need to switch all the file APIs to use wide
> characters.)
Using "M-x set-language-environment" was just a way to try to
reproduce the problem. I do not know how to do that otherwise. (I know
very little about coding systems.)
> So the question is: what is your value of file-name-coding-system,
> after you invoke set-language-environment?
It is nil both before and after "M-x set-language-environment".
But something clearly has changed, see what I wrote initially.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-03 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-02 21:58 bug#6974: Emacs doesn't like Swedish ä (on w32) Lennart Borgman
2010-09-03 1:44 ` Jason Rumney
2010-09-03 11:20 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-03 8:03 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-09-03 9:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-03 9:46 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-09-03 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-03 16:23 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-09-03 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-03 19:33 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-09-03 21:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-04 6:22 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-09-04 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-04 7:30 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-09-04 8:16 ` bug#6971: " Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-03 8:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-03 11:19 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-09-03 11:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-03 13:38 ` bug#6974: " Eli Zaretskii
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