Re: opening files with unicode characters in the file name on windows

[Kevin Rodgers]

Mathias Dahl wrote:
> I'm cannot get emacs to open up a file that has a file name
> with unicode characters in it. I have created these file
> names by copy-paste from the Character Map tool in
> Windows. As Emacs has good suupport for reading "unicode
> formats" like UTF-8, UTF-16 etc it is a pity that it cannot
> open these files.
>
> My emacs version:
>
> GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2004-07-09 on FARIBA
>
> OS:
>
> Windows XP
>
> Any suggestions to how I could open these files (other than
> renaming them of course) are appreciated.

Does (setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8) help?

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Kevin Rodgers