From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: opening files with unicode characters in the file name on windows Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 12:38:45 +0300 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <9178-Fri06Aug2004123844+0300-eliz@gnu.org> References: <410E6877.7010001@yahoo.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091785327 18485 80.91.224.253 (6 Aug 2004 09:42:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 06 11:42:01 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bt1Ef-0006L8-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 11:42:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bt1IG-00043N-Ay for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 05:45:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bt1I8-00043H-H8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 05:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bt1I7-000435-1x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 05:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bt1I6-000432-Tz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 05:45:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.23] (helo=aragorn.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bt1E4-0004Bo-VE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 05:41:25 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski (pns03-194-35.inter.net.il [80.230.194.35]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (MOS 3.4.6-GR) with ESMTP id EBY50189; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 12:41:09 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: (message from Mathias Dahl on 05 Aug 2004 13:28:26 +0200) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20005 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20005 > From: Mathias Dahl > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > Date: 05 Aug 2004 13:28:26 +0200 > > > > I am almost convinced that Windows *do* encode them with UTF-16, > > > but when I set UTF-16 as file-name-coding-system emacs freezes > > > whatever I do and I have to keep pressing C-g to unfreeze it. :( > > > > What value, exactly, did you try to use for file-name-coding-system? > > I did this: > > (setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-16) Sounds like a bug, so please take this to gnu.emacs.bug. Meanwhile, if you set debug-on-quit to t and repeat what you told above, what traceback do you see after C-q? That traceback should show what function is inflooping for utf-16.