Emacs does not show Devanagari filenames correctly (revised)

Emacs does not show Devanagari filenames correctly (revised)

[सुशान्त देवळेकर(Sushant Devlekar)]

I have no computer background, but I have been using emacs for the past 2
years.

I am using Emacs 28.2 on Trisquel 11. I have installed it using 'guix
package manager'.

When I am trying to open a file with emacs, named in Devanagari characters
it opens as a blank file and the file name on the mode bar appears as
garbage. (Please see the image.)

emacs01.png
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pZOX4FZi9S0CcKIqHPWvvit8pDknqc5c/view?usp=sharing>
On the other hand, when I open the same file using the mini buffer, it
opens correctly as can be seen in the image below.

emacs02.png
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s6a92mpuSCnXdVGA6BZ8rlmis7H2zpf2/view?usp=sharing>

I have also tried adding the following in my init file. But problem
persists,

(set-language-environment "UTF-8")
(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)



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Re: Emacs does not show Devanagari filenames correctly (revised)

[James Thomas]

सुशान्त देवळेकर(Sushant Devlekar) wrote:

> When I am trying to open a file with emacs, named in Devanagari characters
> it opens as a blank file and the file name on the mode bar appears as
> garbage. (Please see the image.)

Try setting this:

(info "(emacs) File Name Coding")
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/File-Name-Coding.html

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