Re: ISO-8859-1 encoded file names and UTF-8

[Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net>]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

>> From: Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net>
>> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 19:25:25 +0100
>> 
>> > And what is the value of `default-file-name-coding-system'?  If it's
>> > anything but `utf-8', please try setting `file-name-coding-system' to
>> > `utf-8' and see if that helps.
>> 
>> I did ask for help; I reported a problem worth fixing ;)  It is a
>> reather serious problem, IMO.
>
> This must be some kind of misunderstanding: I was trying to help you,
> not mock your report in any way.

Sorry.

> So please do tell what is the value of `default-file-name-coding-system'
> and please do try setting `file-name-coding-system' to `utf-8'.  It
> might get your problem solved.

It's set to mule-utf-8.  In the meantime I converted all file names to
UTF-8; now, Emacs works as expected (name are properly decoded and dired
is able to work on them).  Then I added another ISO-8859-1
encoded file name and all the UTF-8 encoded names are displayed wrongly:

  /home/ke/Texte/wikipedia:
  insgesamt 128
[...]
  -rw-r--r--    1 ke       users        2769 2003-03-08 21:46 Fürth (Bayern)
  -rw-r--r--    1 ke       users         903 2003-03-08 10:44 Internationalisierung
  -rw-r--r--    1 ke       users        1327 2003-03-08 17:42 Konrad Duden
  -rw-r--r--    1 ke       users        2117 2003-03-08 17:46 Mittelfranken
  -rw-r--r--    1 ke       users        1150 2003-03-08 19:08 Nachschlagewerk
  -rw-r--r--    1 ke       users         520 2003-03-05 23:24 Nördliches Sotho
  -rw-r--r--    1 ke       users           0 2003-03-09 05:30 Nürnberg
  -rw-r--r--    1 ke       users        1269 2003-03-08 10:44 Pegnitz (Fluss)
[...]

"Nürnberg" is ISO-8859-1 encoded.

> Again a misunderstanding, I hope.  I was trying to point to a possible
> way of designing such a feature, not tell that I think the issue
> should be dismissed.

Point taken.  Thanks for helping to track down the issue.  I hope my
reports are helpful.

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