[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#6974: closed (Emacs doesn't like Swedish ä (on w32))

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> Emacs doesn't like Swedish ä (on w32)
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> Thu, 2 Sep 2010 23:58:04 +0200
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> I have a file whose name contains the Swedish char ä (a with two dots
> above, 228 in latin-1).
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> I have seen several strange things with this. Here are some I remember:
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> I start from "emacs -Q". In an org-mode file I try to insert a link to
> this file with "C-c C-l file FILENAME".
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> * After M-x set-language-environment RET RET (i.e. "English") and then
> opening a new org file.
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> Works nicely. Examining the char "ä" in the link in the org buffer
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>         character: ä (228, #o344, #xe4)
> preferred charset: unicode-bmp
>                    (Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (U+0000..U+FFFF))
>        code point: 0xE4
>            syntax: w    which means: word
>          category: .:Base, j:Japanese, l:Latin
>       buffer code: #xC3 #xA4
>         file code: #xE4 (encoded by coding system iso-latin-1-dos)
>           display: by this font (glyph code)
>     uniscribe:-outline-Courier
> New-normal-normal-normal-mono-13-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 (#x6C)
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> In this case I can save the file as usual.
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> * After M-x set-language-environment RET utf-8 RET and then opening a
> new org file.
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> When choosing the file the char "ä" is shown as \344. It looks the
> same when inserted in the buffer as an org link to the file.
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>         character:   (4194276, #o17777744, #x3fffe4)
> preferred charset: eight-bit (Raw bytes 128-255)
>        code point: 0xE4
>            syntax: w    which means: word
>       buffer code: #xE4
>         file code: not encodable by coding system utf-8-dos
>           display: no font available
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> After this I can not save the file (or rather Emacs prompts me for a
> coding system).
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> I also saw that pasting the file name in some circumstances converts
> the char "ä" (or was it \344) to a space. Unfortunately I do not
> remember how that happened and I can not reproduce it now. (But I am
> very sure it happened this morning.)
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> In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2010-08-10
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags
> -Ic:/g/include -fno-crossjumping'
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> Re: Re: bug#6974: Emacs doesn't like Swedish ä (on w32)
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> Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:38:42 +0300
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> > From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 13:59:59 +0200
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> > It is default-file-name-coding-system that has changed.
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> Right, that would be my next question.
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> > Thanks for the help. Sorry for the noise.
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> Okay, closing the bug.
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