On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
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> Haoyang Xu <snakehsu@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Although this works for whitespaces and maybe some other characters (and I
> > don't know why), the resulted string will have _two_ escape characters in
> > front of every Chinese character.
>
> No, it doesn't.
>
> >   $ ls ~/Dropbox/Office\ Work/\\参\\考\\资\\料/
>
> This is not what shell-quote-argument returns.
>
> ELISP> (shell-quote-argument "~/Dropbox/Office Work/参考资料/")
> "\\~/Dropbox/Office\\ Work/\\参\\考\\资\\料/"
>
>
> There is only one backslash before each quoted character.


You are again right :) My bad, I didn't set my environment properly. I need to ensure Emacs send the arguments to shell in UTF-8 coding, by either

      (setq default-process-coding-system '(utf-8 . utf-8))
   or
      (set-language-environment "UTF-8")

Then it works.

Sorry for letting you chase the ghost. Please accept my apology and thanks.


Best Regards,

Haoyang
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>
> Andreas.
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