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

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.03.2008 um 22:44 schrieb Markus:

> > You could launch Aquamacs Emacs in Terminal, too:
> >     /Applications/Aquamacs\ Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Aquamacs\  
> > Emacs -nw
>
> Here, typing ü yields to ??

Is Terminal set into UTF-8 encoding? Is Aquamacs Emacs set into UTF-8  
"mood?" What value have LC_CTYPE or LANG in Terminal's shell  
environment? And finally: the Emacsen before 23.0.60 only "emulate"  
UTF-8 somehow.

You might try again, adding also a -Q to the invocation, with  
Terminal in some ISO Latin encoding (ISO 8859-15 for example) and  
also set LC_CTYPE to this value.


> > > 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
>
> Yes, I knew this. This also works for Terminal. But hey: this is  
> the year 2008, Emacs 22.x and Mac OS X 10.5 ... I expect German  
> umlauts to work.

The umlauts are handled somehow in text – but HFS+ is something  
different. Emacs.app, the Cocoa/GNUSTEP implementation of GNU Emacs  
23.0.60,can't handle such file names. Or apple's own tools! Have you  
tried, just for fun or proof of apple's mis-concept, to attach your  
file to an eMail and typed ``r ü´´ in the form to find your file at  
once? In Finder itself it works better ...

GNU/Linux can be a better choice than Mac OS X.

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Mit friedvollen Grüßen

  Pete

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longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take  
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