Re: $ emacs filename with special German chars gives me strange transliteration

[Matthias Pfeifer]

Hi,

In general i think that unicode is still work in progress in Emacs. The 
 Emacs homepage at http://www.gnu.org also says:


Future Versions

    * Emacs 23, the next major release, will have improved Unicode support.

So i think currently we can't expect working support.

Jens-Olaf Lindermann wrote:
>
> Problem 1: When I will start emacs with a new file, whose name 
contains some
> German chars like ä, ö or so, strange encoding-signs appear constantly in
> the echo(command)-buffer below though I have no problems opening such a
> filename with C-x C-f. Same happens if I will open something
> like /Aufsätze.
>

That may depend on how your terminal/console works with the umlauts. 
There are also settings for readline (i think) that affect the 
translation between 7 and 8 bit characters (or so...).

Matthias, who can't contribute anymore but will attentative follow this 
thread...