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Reading national characters in filenames on Mac OS X?
From: |
Jonas Steverud |
Subject: |
Reading national characters in filenames on Mac OS X? |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Apr 2003 09:18:42 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.2 (darwin) |
Hello.
(In case this should be a faq, please direct me to wherever I can find
the asnwer, I've googled around but whithout success.)
Since I'm swedish speaking I find it quite natural to have
directory names and filenames in swedish, which means that quite a
few will contain the swedish letters, åäöÅÄÖ.
The problem is that Emacs[1] cannot handle those files since Mac OS X
10.2.5 use UTF-8 (?) for encoding filenames - not in the current set-up
at least. It thinks the multibyte is two characters.
Does anyone know how to make Emacs understand that the names are UTF-8
encoded?
Apple's X11.app ß3
LANG=sv_SE
LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1
(set-language-environment "Latin-1")
The above probably sets the following:
default-file-name-coding-system's value is iso-latin-1
file-name-coding-system's value is nil
I tried to set file-name-coding-system to 'utf-8 and 'mac-roman and
Emacs stops complaing about the file's name (with iso-latin-1 it can
walk down a directory path with non-A-Z but when I try to select a
file it claims the directory doesn't exist ["run M-x make-directory"])
but I don't see the non-A-Z character but some other two character
representation, i.e. Emacs doesn't decode the multibyte when it is viewed.
What is the recommended set-up if I want to be able to read a Mac
filesystem and edit text in Latin-1 - I have too many files using
Latin-1, esp. Gnus, to change to UTF-8. But UTF-8 for editing is an
option if all my old files won't confuse Emacs, i.e. I don't want to
lose all my mails.
Is there a (set-language-environemnt "utf-8")-equivalent? I couldn't
find anything appropriate. :-(
Any suggestions?
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[1] GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin, X toolkit) of 2003-01-02
on Neocortex.local. Downloaded and patched via the Fink project.
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