Re: emacs cannot read accent properly in a path

[Patrick Giraudoux]

> would be correct syntax, if your system would know about "fr_FR.UTF-8" 
> as a locale. You should consult you system with locale (man locale for 
> some details)

tried it locale -a and fr_FR.UTF-8 is in the list.

Tried to set
export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
into ~/.bashrc

Did not work
> And if this fails, then check whether you set-language-environment – 
> if you do, comment it!
I did it through the menu Options > Mule > Set Language Environment 
setting up UTF-8 as well as > European > French.

No result.
> Do the Elisp statements change the behaviour? Are the DOS or Windows 
> file name "exported" and "imported" in the right encoding? When the 
> file names are in DOS or Windows in some Code Page, then you can't 
> mount them in Linux as UTF-8 ... (although the excerpt ``A"´´ for è 
> makes one believe, but è is in UTF-8 C3 A8, i.e. è)
Actually the bash reads DOS encoding well including the accents, and 
even emacs autocompletion is correct in the mini-buffer if emacs is 
started from ~/. The è unstead è just come when starting emacs within a 
directory which includes letter accents in the path... Very strange.

Anyway, many thanks for your help,

Patrick
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