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


From: Markus
Subject: Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:25:11 +0100
User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213)

Is Aquamacs Emacs set into UTF-8 "mood?"

Mode-line! It should start in the left corner with -u:. You press with the mouse cursor on the symbol between - and : ...

Err, my mode-line looks like this: 1:-- rückerstattung.txt

When hovering the 1, the tool tip says: iso-latin-1-unix buffer

But this tells you about the encoding of the file content, not its name, I guess!

My test file, since Jaguar (?), is called ���... No file name completion starts for me.

Hmmm, in the carbon copy e-mail that I got from your reply, I saw that your file was called äöü ... and not ??? ... I guess your message didn't make the UTF-8 way to this newsgroup ...???

The shell in Terminal uses a different mechanism for file name completion than GNU Emacs. Is this the answer you wanted to read? Both mechanisms choose from the same pool of HFS+ decomposed and deranged character strings.

I see. Same issue, some implications!

And you never tried in Finder, best when you have at least one file starting with a or A and at least another one starting with � or �, just to type - not in the search hole! � a or �?

Well, after having replied to your message, I understood what you meant. So I created a couple of files called ra, rb, rc, ru and rü. Typing rü in Finder selects ru, not rü ... Finder ain't smarter here. Duh :-(


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