On 3/8/2013 1:25 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> On 3/8/2013 12:53 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:33:07 +0200
>>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>>> Cc: 13907@debbugs.gnu.org
>>>
>>> And one more question: what is the value of file-name _before_ it is
>>> passed to cygwin-convert-file-name-from-windows?  Does it perhaps
>>> already have the U-umlaut replaced by a blank?
>>
>> I think the problem is on the C level, not on the Lisp level.  Take a
>> look at w32term.c:construct_drag_n_drop -- it uses ANSI version of
>> DragQueryFile to get the file name, then decodes it by DECODE_FILE.
>> But DECODE_FILE uses UTF-8 in the cygw32 build, so this is
>> inappropriate for decoding file names that come from Windows APIs.
>>
>> Instead, in the cygw32 build, construct_drag_n_drop should use
>> DragQueryFileW and convert the file name to the internal Emacs
>> representation using from_unicode.
>>
> 
> 
> Thanks for finding that! I've been swamped this week, and I haven't been able to
> do any investigation. I'll see whether I can come up with a fix this weekend.
> 

The patch below resolves the issue for me. Assuming it's acceptable, where
should I install it?

~/edev/trunk
$ bzr diff
=== modified file 'src/w32term.c'
--- src/w32term.c       2013-02-16 13:59:37 +0000
+++ src/w32term.c       2013-03-09 03:02:10 +0000
@@ -3186,12 +3186,27 @@

   for (i = 0; i < num_files; i++)
     {
+#ifdef NTGUI_UNICODE
+      len = DragQueryFileW (hdrop, i, NULL, 0);
+      if (len <= 0)
+       continue;
+
+      name = alloca ((len + 1) * sizeof (wchar_t));
+      DragQueryFileW (hdrop, i, (wchar_t *) name, len + 1);
+      files = Fcons (
+        from_unicode (make_unibyte_string(
+                        name,
+                        1 + sizeof (wchar_t) * len)),
+        files);
+#else
       len = DragQueryFile (hdrop, i, NULL, 0);
       if (len <= 0)
        continue;
+
       name = alloca (len + 1);
       DragQueryFile (hdrop, i, name, len + 1);
       files = Fcons (DECODE_FILE (build_string (name)), files);
+#endif /* NTGUI_UNICODE */
     }

   DragFinish (hdrop);