From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ben Bullock Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Gnu Emacs under Japanese MS Windows Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:02:51 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1194570171.261210.234480@y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194580295 22601 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2007 03:51:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 03:51:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 09 04:51:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IqKu8-00062M-Ks for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:51:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IqKtu-0008P4-Vv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:51:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.160.214.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1194570171 18523 127.0.0.1 (9 Nov 2007 01:02:51 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 01:02:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com; posting-host=134.160.214.120; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu sci.lang.japan:212052 gnu.emacs.help:153624 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:51:04 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49085 Archived-At: I am trying to use Gnu Emacs on MS Windows XP Japanese edition. Does anyone know how to get Gnu Emacs to recognize Japanese characters properly? There seem to be a lot of bugs. For example when I start Gnu Emacs and try to open a new file, it correctly prints out Find file: c:/Documents and Settings/bkb/デスクトップ but then when I press "tab" it says that it can't find any files, indicating that it simply doesn't recognize its own printout of the directory. Going up one directory and then looking at c:/Documents and Settings/bkb/ reveals that the desktop directory is mojibaked into c:/Documents and Settings/bkb/\203f\203X\203N\203g\203b\203v/ I can open files in this directory OK but all the file names are mojibaked. The Gnu Emacs on Windows FAQ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/big.html says that I should add a line to .emacs (set-w32-system-coding-system 'japanese-shift-jis) but it seems to do no good at all. It's a little frustrating not being able to open files in the desktop or other folders because of the Japanese characters in the name. Any suggestions?