Re: unicode path displays wrong in minibuffer

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

mopi wrote:
> It seems that some characters are displayed wrong in the minibuffer
> when I save a file.
>
> In *Messages* buffer it displays correctly as:
> Wrote d:/- Johans/träning/2007.txt
>
> But in minibuffer the ä-character gets escaped:
> Wrote d:/- Johans/tr\344ning/2007.txt
>
> I'm running GNU Emacs 22.0.99.1 on Win XP using Swedish keymap. I have
> tried both
>
> (setq file-name-coding-system 'iso-8859-15)
> (setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8)
>
> as well as supplying nothing. All give the wrong display. I have not
> touched the variable default-file-name-coding-system and it's value is
> iso-latin-1-dos if that is relevant.
>
> Is there a solution or should I file a bug report somewhere?
> Thanks in advance.


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