Re: TRAMP corrupting files (it's OS X's fault)

[Will Willis]

Thank you so much for the suggestion!!

-Will

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Daniel Colascione
<danc@merrillpress.com> wrote:
> On May 18, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Will Willis wrote:
>>
>> I'm going to start using rsync to see if that helps.. I wish I were
>> making this up. I've had files corrupt on me as many as 3 times in one
>
> I ran into the same problem. It's actually OS X's fault: OS X (at least
> 10.5) doesn't give Emacs any locale environment variables. Emacs guesses
> it's running under 8859-1, which has disastrous consequences for tramp. (If
> you want to test it, run locale under eshell. In the terminal, you see the
> expected locale output because Terminal.app *itself* sets up the correct
> environment before running your shell.)
>
> One solution is to just give Emacs the right environment variables. I've
> outlined how to do that here:
>
> http://qtmstr.livejournal.com/19155.html
>
> (Modify the specific environment variable values according to taste.)
>
> Another approach is to add this to your Emacs initialization:
>
> (when (eq system-type 'darwin)
>    (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8))
>
> These fixed the corruption issue *I* was having. YMMV.
>
>> I'd love to upgrade to Carbon Emacs 23, but I'm still on OS X
>> 10.4, holding out for snow leopard.
>
> There is no CarbonEmacs 23. The OS X support will be provided via a new
> Cocoa port which, to put it kindly, is broken. You might want to stick with
> CarbonEmacs for now.
>