Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts

[Markus <mnissl@gmx.de>]

Peter Dyballa schrieb:
> 
> Am 09.03.2008 um 12:53 schrieb Markus:
> 
>> I'm using a German Mac OS X 10.5.2. I wanted to open a file called 
>> "rückerstattung.txt". So I typed C-x C-f rü <tab> ... but it didn't 
>> work. I thought this was a bug in Aquamacs, but then I tried to do the 
>> same with that console emacs which is bundled with Mac OS X 10.5. Same 
>> issue.
> 
> Did you check that both are the same version?

No, they are not: the "default" Emacs is GNU Emacs 22.1.1, 
Aquamacs is GNU Emacs 22.1.91.2. But I have that issue with *any* 
Emacs built for Mac OS X that is out there for OS X 10.4/10.5.

> You could launch Aquamacs Emacs in Terminal, too:
> 
>     /Applications/Aquamacs\ Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Aquamacs\ Emacs -nw

Here, typing ü yields to ??

>> Then, I remembered that some time ago, I had the same issue within 
>> Terminal where typing "rü<tab>" didn't autocomplete the file name.
> 
> File a bug report at apple: 
> https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa

I did that. Maybe they'll take care of it.

>> So, can't the autocomplete within Emacs work because it doesn't work 
>> under Terminal?
> 
> This is not really likely. The Emacsen do not use a shell based 
> mechanism to expand a file name. Nevertheless, both failures can be 
> related to the same cause: apple uses in HFS+ decomposed Unicode 
> characters. This means that your file's name starts with ru¨ ... Have 
> you tried
> 
>     C-x C-f r u TAB

Yes, I knew this. This also works for Terminal. But hey: this is 
the year 2008, Emacs 22.x and Mac OS X 10.5 ... I expect German 
umlauts to work.

> BTW, there is a more Aquamacs Emacs related mailing list:
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Thanks for the hint, but as mentioned above, this is not an 
Aquamacs bug ... but if they fixed the issue, that would be great 
as well :-)

Thanks for your reply,
Markus