Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.03.2008 um 12:53 schrieb Markus:

> I'm using a German Mac OS X 10.5.2. I wanted to open a file called  
> "rückerstattung.txt". So I typed C-x C-f rü <tab> ... but it didn't  
> work. I thought this was a bug in Aquamacs, but then I tried to do  
> the same with that console emacs which is bundled with Mac OS X  
> 10.5. Same issue.

Did you check that both are the same version?

You could launch Aquamacs Emacs in Terminal, too:

        /Applications/Aquamacs\ Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Aquamacs\ Emacs -nw

> Then, I remembered that some time ago, I had the same issue within  
> Terminal where typing "rü<tab>" didn't autocomplete the file name.

File a bug report at apple: https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/ 
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> So, can't the autocomplete within Emacs work because it doesn't  
> work under Terminal?


This is not really likely. The Emacsen do not use a shell based  
mechanism to expand a file name. Nevertheless, both failures can be  
related to the same cause: apple uses in HFS+ decomposed Unicode  
characters. This means that your file's name starts with ru¨ ... Have  
you tried

        C-x C-f r u TAB


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