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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Cc: 13907@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13907: 24.3.50; cygw32 build mishandles drag-n-dropped file with non-ASCII characters	in name
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:42:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8338w5zni7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <513A1D4D.5060908@cornell.edu>

> Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:18:05 -0500
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
> 
> Create a file "/tmp/Ü.txt".  (In case my mailer mangles this, that's 
> <U-umlaut>.txt.)  Now open Windows Explorer and drag this file into an 
> emacs frame.  This results in the error message
> 
>    dnd-open-local-file: Can not read file:///tmp/%20.txt
> 
> I think the problem occurs early in w32-handle-dropped-file (defined in 
> lisp/term/w32-win.el).  That function starts with
> 
> (let ((f (if (eq system-type 'cygwin)
> 	     (cygwin-convert-file-name-from-windows file-name t)
> 
> At this point f should have the value "/tmp/Ü.txt".  If I continue 
> manually carrying out the code in w32-handle-dropped-file as though f 
> had that value, everything is fine, as shown below.  So 
> cygwin-convert-file-name-from-windows must be doing something wrong.

What do you get from cygwin-convert-file-name-from-windows with this
file name?

Also, what is the system codepage on this system?






  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-08 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-08 17:18 bug#13907: 24.3.50; cygw32 build mishandles drag-n-dropped file with non-ASCII characters in name Ken Brown
2013-03-08 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-03-08 20:06   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-08 20:33   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-08 20:53     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-08 21:03       ` Ken Brown
2013-03-09  8:09         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-08 21:25       ` Daniel Colascione
2013-03-09  3:03         ` Daniel Colascione
2013-03-09  3:03           ` Daniel Colascione
2013-03-09  8:32             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-09  8:37               ` Daniel Colascione
2013-03-09  8:51                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-09  8:37               ` Daniel Colascione
2013-03-10 23:00             ` Daniel Colascione
2013-03-11  9:51               ` Ken Brown
2013-03-09 12:16           ` Ken Brown
2013-03-09 19:31           ` Glenn Morris

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