From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: opening files with unicode characters in the file name on windows Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 10:14:47 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <410E6877.7010001@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091463436 25123 80.91.224.253 (2 Aug 2004 16:17:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:17:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 02 18:17:07 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BrfUo-0002uk-00 for ; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:17:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BrfYD-0004PE-Bj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 12:20:37 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de NY0+TJSlA7Jn2nl85sXcwgaoMhhIUQX5iMe8MXMA29umT91gE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124608 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19941 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19941 Mathias Dahl wrote: > I'm cannot get emacs to open up a file that has a file name > with unicode characters in it. I have created these file > names by copy-paste from the Character Map tool in > Windows. As Emacs has good suupport for reading "unicode > formats" like UTF-8, UTF-16 etc it is a pity that it cannot > open these files. > > My emacs version: > > GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2004-07-09 on FARIBA > > OS: > > Windows XP > > Any suggestions to how I could open these files (other than > renaming them of course) are appreciated. Does (setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8) help? -- Kevin Rodgers