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24.5; gdb goes wrong when using non-English file or directory name

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From: "chrt" <chrt2000 <at> gmail.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 24.5; gdb goes wrong when using non-English file or directory name
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 23:10:05 +0800

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I opened a existing C++ source code with Chinese file name,
then used `M-x gdb`:`gdb -i=mi xxx` and `M-x gdb-many-windows`.
Trying clicking the fringe to set a breakpoint, I didn't get a little red
point as expected, though it appeared successfully in the breakpoints
buffer. However, then I was told that `Use M-x make-directory RET RET
to create the directory and its parents`. Clicking the fringe again, it 
told me
`File /home/_directory_name_/"/home/_directory_name_/_some_strange_numbers_with_backslash_.cpp"
is read-only on disk. Make buffer read-only, too? (y or n)`

After changing the file name into a English one, gdb worked normally. It
also went wrong when picking a Chinese directory name.

Hope that the problem can be solved. Thanks. :)

And sorry for my poor English.

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Message #8 received at 25754 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "chrt" <chrt2000 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25754 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25754: 24.5;
 gdb goes wrong when using non-English file or directory name
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 19:52:08 +0200

> From: "chrt" <chrt2000 <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 23:10:05 +0800
> Feedback-ID: webmail:qq.com:bgforeign:bgforeign1
> 
> I opened a existing C++ source code with Chinese file name,
> then used `M-x gdb`:`gdb -i=mi xxx` and `M-x gdb-many-windows`.
> Trying clicking the fringe to set a breakpoint, I didn't get a little red
> point as expected, though it appeared successfully in the breakpoints
> buffer. However, then I was told that `Use M-x make-directory RET RET
> to create the directory and its parents`. Clicking the fringe again, it 
> told me
> `File /home/_directory_name_/"/home/_directory_name_/_some_strange_numbers_with_backslash_.cpp"
> is read-only on disk. Make buffer read-only, too? (y or n)`
> 
> After changing the file name into a English one, gdb worked normally. It
> also went wrong when picking a Chinese directory name.

Please upgrade to Emacs 25.1, this problem should be fixed there.  If
this still doesn't work out-of-the-box in Emacs 25.1, customize
gdb-mi-decode-strings to a non-nil value.

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