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[macOS] C-s in dired fails to find umlauts in filenames (due to wrong file-name-coding-system)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Markus Triska <markus.triska <at> gmx.at>

Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:35:04 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Markus Triska <markus.triska <at> gmx.at>, 2940 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2940: 23.0.92; C-s in dired fails to find files with umlauts
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:22:06 +0300

> From: Markus Triska <markus.triska <at> gmx.at>
> Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:28:48 +0200
> Cc: 
> 
> 
> With ~/töst.txt existing, when I do:
> 
>    $ emacs -Q ~/
> 
> and press:
> 
>    C-\ german-postfix RET C-s oe RET
> 
> to search for "ö" in the dired buffer (the input method correctly
> converts the entered "oe" to "ö" in the minibuffer), I get:
> 
>    Failing wrapped I-search [DE<]: ö

What's your value of file-name-coding-system?  Does it help to say

  C-x RET c utf-8 RET C-x d

instead of just "C-x d"?
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