From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8517: Can't handle utf8 encoded filenames in locale 'de_DE.utf8' Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:02:58 -0500 Message-ID: <87oc442zpp.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303086915 20312 80.91.229.12 (18 Apr 2011 00:35:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:35:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 611396-forwarded@bugs.debian.org, Gernot Kieseritzky To: 8517@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 18 02:35:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QBcQl-0000D4-6n for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Gernot Kieseritzky writes: > Opening an existing file named "=C3=96=C3=84=C3=9C=C3=9F.txt" does not wo= rk, instead, > Emacs creates a new buffer with the same name (reported correctly) > which is empty. After saving the file name is corrupted displaying as > "???.txt" on the console. Nautilus reports a "wrong encoding" and > equally display three question marks instead of the "Umlauts". In > contrast, in Ubuntu 10.04 utf8 encoded file names create no problems > for Emacs. It turns out that the problem was being caused by this call from .emacs: (current-language-environment "German") which appears to make Emacs prefer latin-1. I wasn't sure if this should be considered an actual problem, or just a configuration error, so I thought I should forward it. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D611396 for further details. Thanks --=20 Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4