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

[Markus <mnissl@gmx.de>]

>>> Is Aquamacs Emacs set into UTF-8 "mood?"
> 
> Mode-line! It should start in the left corner with -u:. You press with 
> the mouse cursor on the symbol between - and : ...

Err, my mode-line looks like this: 1:-- rückerstattung.txt

When hovering the 1, the tool tip says: iso-latin-1-unix buffer

But this tells you about the encoding of the file content, not 
its name, I guess!

> My test file, since Jaguar (?), is called ���... No file name completion 
> starts for me.

Hmmm, in the carbon copy e-mail that I got from your reply, I saw 
that your file was called äöü ... and not ??? ... I guess your 
message didn't make the UTF-8 way to this newsgroup ...???

> The shell in Terminal uses a different mechanism for file name 
> completion than GNU Emacs. Is this the answer you wanted to read? Both 
> mechanisms choose from the same pool of HFS+ decomposed and deranged 
> character strings.

I see. Same issue, some implications!

> And you never tried in Finder, best when you have at least 
> one file starting with a or A and at least another one starting with � 
> or �, just to type - not in the search hole! � a or �?

Well, after having replied to your message, I understood what you 
meant. So I created a couple of files called ra, rb, rc, ru and 
rü. Typing rü in Finder selects ru, not rü ... Finder ain't 
smarter here. Duh :-(