unicode path displays wrong in minibuffer

unicode path displays wrong in minibuffer

[mopi]

It seems that some characters are displayed wrong in the minibuffer
when I save a file.

In *Messages* buffer it displays correctly as:
Wrote d:/- Johans/träning/2007.txt

But in minibuffer the ä-character gets escaped:
Wrote d:/- Johans/tr\344ning/2007.txt

I'm running GNU Emacs 22.0.99.1 on Win XP using Swedish keymap. I have
tried both

(setq file-name-coding-system 'iso-8859-15)
(setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8)

as well as supplying nothing. All give the wrong display. I have not
touched the variable default-file-name-coding-system and it's value is
iso-latin-1-dos if that is relevant.

Is there a solution or should I file a bug report somewhere?
Thanks in advance.

Re: unicode path displays wrong in minibuffer

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

mopi wrote:
> It seems that some characters are displayed wrong in the minibuffer
> when I save a file.
> 
> In *Messages* buffer it displays correctly as:
> Wrote d:/- Johans/träning/2007.txt
> 
> But in minibuffer the ä-character gets escaped:
> Wrote d:/- Johans/tr\344ning/2007.txt
> 
> I'm running GNU Emacs 22.0.99.1 on Win XP using Swedish keymap. I have
> tried both
> 
> (setq file-name-coding-system 'iso-8859-15)
> (setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8)
> 
> as well as supplying nothing. All give the wrong display. I have not
> touched the variable default-file-name-coding-system and it's value is
> iso-latin-1-dos if that is relevant.
> 
> Is there a solution or should I file a bug report somewhere?
> Thanks in advance.


Please send a bug report. From the menus choose

    Help - Send Bug Report ...

and then follow the instructions there.

Re: unicode path displays wrong in minibuffer

[mopi]

Reported.

Thanks.

Re: unicode path displays wrong in minibuffer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: mopi <52hands@gmail.com>
> Date: 28 May 2007 12:21:14 -0700
> 
> 
> It seems that some characters are displayed wrong in the minibuffer
> when I save a file.
> 
> In *Messages* buffer it displays correctly as:
> Wrote d:/- Johans/träning/2007.txt
> 
> But in minibuffer the ä-character gets escaped:
> Wrote d:/- Johans/tr\344ning/2007.txt

I cannot reproduce this on my XP machine (with a different encoding of
non-ASCII characters, as I'm not in a 8859-15 locale).

Could you please try this in a fresh "emacs -Q", after you set
file-name-coding-system to iso-8859-15?

> (setq file-name-coding-system 'iso-8859-15)
> (setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8)

Just wondering: why did you try UTF-8? \344 is clearly not a UTF-8
encoding.

Re: unicode path displays wrong in minibuffer

[mopi]

Discussion continued at help-emacs-windows at gnu dot org since it
seems windows specific.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-emacs-windows/2007-05/msg00047.html