* bug#4832: emacs fails to open files
@ 2009-10-30 7:19 Glenn Linderman
2016-08-23 1:25 ` npostavs
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From: Glenn Linderman @ 2009-10-30 7:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bug-gnu-emacs
Tried to open a file containing Romanian characters on Windows. The
characters are â and ş . emacs 22.1.1.
Tried a number of ways, particularly by using dired, and by dragging the
file from Explorer to the emacs title bar (both of which work for other
files). Also had problems with files containing Cyrillic characters in
their names, or Chinese characters... those didn't even show up in dired!
Discovered that emacs 23.1 claims better Unicode support. Yay!
And it might, but it doesn't solve this problem. Still couldn't drag
the files into emacs 23.1. The Cyrillic and Chinese ones now show up in
dired with shortnames! They can be opened, if you can guess which one
to use. But the Romanian ones are still displayed with octal escapes in
dired, and can't be opened from there or via dragging to the emacs title
bar.
Seems likely the problem is related to the emacs file name handling
probably using the "A" APIs for file names, instead of the "W" APIs.
Seems likely that this is still the same problem that was reported in
the following thread from Aug 2004. And here it is Oct 2009!
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/81ae34aa05b4c929/fdb0cc4603d30313?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=emacs+windows+cyrillic+file+name#fdb0cc4603d30313
I can't find out if there is an online emacs bug tracker, to know if the
problem reported then is still in the queue, or if a workaround was
posted, etc. Any help finding such a bug tracker would be appreciated.
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* bug#4832: emacs fails to open files
2009-10-30 7:19 bug#4832: emacs fails to open files Glenn Linderman
@ 2016-08-23 1:25 ` npostavs
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: npostavs @ 2016-08-23 1:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Linderman; +Cc: 4832
found 4832 24.3
close 4832 24.4
quit
I found 24.3 wasn't able to open a file named "â-ş", but 24.4 was. So
I'm closing as fixed in 24.4. Please write back if you find otherwise.
Glenn Linderman <v+perl@g.nevcal.com> writes:
> Tried to open a file containing Romanian characters on Windows. The
> characters are â and ş . emacs 22.1.1.
>
> Tried a number of ways, particularly by using dired, and by dragging
> the file from Explorer to the emacs title bar (both of which work for
> other files). Also had problems with files containing Cyrillic
> characters in their names, or Chinese characters... those didn't even
> show up in dired!
[...]
>
> I can't find out if there is an online emacs bug tracker, to know if
> the problem reported then is still in the queue, or if a workaround
> was posted, etc. Any help finding such a bug tracker would be
> appreciated.
Web version of this bug report is at
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=4832
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