Subject: Re: bug#11339: 24.1.50; read-{buffer,file-name}-completion-ignore-case fails on non-ascii

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 11:20:12 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:36:08 -0500
> 
> > The patch below fixes Stefan's simplified test case, but the original
> > problem is still unsolved: "C-x b ba TAB TAB" says "Sole completion".
> >
> > What did I miss?
> 
> It still fails when you swap the two elements in the list :-(
> I don't have time to dig into the code now, tho,

What about the below?  It passes all the tests, and also fixes the
original use case.

diff --git a/src/minibuf.c b/src/minibuf.c
index f6cf47f..1e87c50 100644
--- a/src/minibuf.c
+++ b/src/minibuf.c
@@ -1323,13 +1323,13 @@ DEFUN ("try-completion", Ftry_completion, Stry_completion, 2, 3, 0,
 	  else
 	    {
 	      compare = min (bestmatchsize, SCHARS (eltstring));
-	      tem = Fcompare_strings (bestmatch, zero,
-				      make_fixnum (compare),
-				      eltstring, zero,
-				      make_fixnum (compare),
+	      Lisp_Object lcompare = make_fixnum (compare);
+	      tem = Fcompare_strings (bestmatch, zero, lcompare,
+				      eltstring, zero, lcompare,
 				      completion_ignore_case ? Qt : Qnil);
 	      matchsize = EQ (tem, Qt) ? compare : eabs (XFIXNUM (tem)) - 1;
 
+	      Lisp_Object old_bestmatch = bestmatch;
 	      if (completion_ignore_case)
 		{
 		  /* If this is an exact match except for case,
@@ -1363,7 +1363,12 @@ DEFUN ("try-completion", Ftry_completion, Stry_completion, 2, 3, 0,
 		    bestmatch = eltstring;
 		}
 	      if (bestmatchsize != SCHARS (eltstring)
-		  || bestmatchsize != matchsize)
+		  || bestmatchsize != matchsize
+		  || (completion_ignore_case
+		      && !EQ (Fcompare_strings (old_bestmatch, zero, lcompare,
+						eltstring, zero, lcompare,
+						Qnil),
+			      Qt)))
 		/* Don't count the same string multiple times.  */
 		matchcount += matchcount <= 1;
 	      bestmatchsize = matchsize;