From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Linderman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#4832: emacs fails to open files Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:19:03 -0700 Message-ID: <4AEA9367.6070400@g.nevcal.com> Reply-To: Glenn Linderman , 4832@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257048539 19569 80.91.229.12 (1 Nov 2009 04:08:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 04:08:59 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 01 05:08:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N4RkK-00080X-Eu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:08:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57788 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4RkJ-00064V-Vw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:08:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3ltK-0003Qn-AR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:27:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3ltF-0003Kn-9f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:27:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40425 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3ltF-0003Ka-4J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:27:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:44154) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3ltE-0000Se-Ju for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:27:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n9U7REBh017646; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:27:14 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n9U7P67I017384; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:25:06 -0700 Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:25:06 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Glenn Linderman Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:25:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 4832 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.125688715516928 (code B ref -1); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:25:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 30 Oct 2009 07:19:15 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n9U7JD2D016925 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:19:15 -0700 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3llR-0003Bc-4G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:19:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3llM-00036F-6x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:19:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38348 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3llM-000364-03 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:19:08 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-mail-130.bluehost.com ([67.222.38.30]:39931) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3llL-0007Wa-LR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:19:07 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 17585 invoked by uid 0); 30 Oct 2009 07:19:05 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO box538.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.138) by outboundproxy4.bluehost.com with SMTP; 30 Oct 2009 07:19:05 -0000 Original-Received: from pool-96-236-74-171.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net ([96.236.74.171] helo=[192.168.194.194]) by box538.bluehost.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N3llJ-0001G3-Ec for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:19:05 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071030 a Firefox/2.0.0.14 sibling, SeaMonkey/1.1.6 - see http://geckoisgecko.org Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 X-Face: /uBBz$M4IWr)?~|rT$B0]>kF[.Ol=AQ$>_7e!Qy^\Hf99*IDIxNBDM{1>w; 1sUVl(ZF-U9yf"1[V2; ~#{$`u|UH]<+[*Cj`N>*>Ea?b%W7"xtBwE X-Identified-User: {11138:box538.bluehost.com:areliabl:nevcal.com} {sentby:smtp auth 96.236.74.171 authed with test@nevcal.com} X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by rzlab.ucr.edu id n9U7REBh017646 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:27:21 -0400 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:08:16 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:32337 Archived-At: Tried to open a file containing Romanian characters on Windows. The=20 characters are =C3=A2 and =C5=9F . emacs 22.1.1.=20 Tried a number of ways, particularly by using dired, and by dragging the=20 file from Explorer to the emacs title bar (both of which work for other=20 files). Also had problems with files containing Cyrillic characters in=20 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=20 the files into emacs 23.1. The Cyrillic and Chinese ones now show up in=20 dired with shortnames! They can be opened, if you can guess which one=20 to use. But the Romanian ones are still displayed with octal escapes in=20 dired, and can't be opened from there or via dragging to the emacs title=20 bar. Seems likely the problem is related to the emacs file name handling=20 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=20 the following thread from Aug 2004. And here it is Oct 2009! http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/81ae34= aa05b4c929/fdb0cc4603d30313?hl=3Den&ie=3DUTF-8&q=3Demacs+windows+cyrillic= +file+name#fdb0cc4603d30313 I can't find out if there is an online emacs bug tracker, to know if the=20 problem reported then is still in the queue, or if a workaround was=20 posted, etc. Any help finding such a bug tracker would be appreciated.