Subject: Re: bug#2940: 23.0.92; C-s in dired fails to find files with umlauts

From: Miles Bader <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:08:40 +0900

It looks to me like the problem is that you're on a mac, and [some?] mac
filesystems silently convert accented characters in filenames to
"composed form", which is different than the pre-composed characters
people tend to use.

Perhaps the new "ucs-normalize" code (which should be added soon I
think) would help:

> The attached is an Unicode normalization tool contributed by
> Kawabata-san.  It performs all the Unicode normalization
> NFC/NFD/NFKD/NFKC, and provides a coding system utf-8-hfs
> that is suitable to be used for Mac OS 8.1's file names.

[Search for "normalize.el" on recent emacs-devel messages]

-Miles

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