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* Gnu Emacs under Japanese MS Windows
@ 2007-11-09  1:02 Ben Bullock
  2007-11-09  1:54 ` Marc Adler
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 22+ messages in thread
From: Ben Bullock @ 2007-11-09  1:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

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?

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2007-11-09  1:02 Gnu Emacs under Japanese MS Windows Ben Bullock
2007-11-09  1:54 ` Marc Adler
2007-11-09  4:04   ` Ben Bullock
2007-11-09 13:00     ` Marc Adler
2007-11-09 10:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-09 15:08 ` Jason Rumney
2007-11-09 21:47   ` Ben Bullock
2007-11-10  0:43     ` Jason Rumney
2007-11-10  2:40       ` Ben Bullock
2007-11-11 23:15         ` Evan Monroig
2007-11-12 15:28         ` Jason Rumney
2007-11-12 22:40           ` Ben Bullock
2007-11-13  1:32             ` Jason Rumney
2007-11-13  4:30               ` Ben Bullock
2007-11-13  8:59                 ` Jason Rumney
2007-11-14  9:11                   ` Ben Bullock
2007-11-14 10:10                     ` Jason Rumney
2007-11-14 10:24                       ` Jason Rumney
2007-11-14 12:18                       ` Ben Bullock
2007-11-14 22:19                         ` Jason Rumney
2007-11-16 21:01                           ` Ben Bullock
2007-11-16 22:38                             ` Ben Finney

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