Subject: bug#22169: 25.0.50; File name compiletion doesn't work with non-ASCII characters on OS X

From: Anders Lindgren <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:21:17 +0100

>
> > I tried setting it to nil. This made completion work. However, the
> letters
> > are presented in decomposed form, so that pressing backspace first
> converts
> > "å" to "a", a second backspace deletes the "a" -- this is not how we
> would
> > like to present file names to users.
>
> That's how composed characters work in Emacs.
>

Andreas,

The OS X file system *stores* filenames in a decomposed manner, that is
true. However, they should be presented to the user as normal (composed)
characters. If `file-name-coding-system' has the original value, they are.
However, the problem is that the completion mechanism fails to handle this
case, which is a bug and it should be fixed.

    -- Anders