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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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 2940 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, markus.triska <at> gmx.at
Subject: bug#2940: 23.0.92; C-s in dired fails to find files with umlauts
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:56:18 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:01:44 -0400
> Cc: 2940 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Markus Triska wrote:
> 
> > Thank you, it does if I add this to ~/.emacs:
> >
> >    (require 'ucs-normalize)
> >    (setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8-hfs)
> 
> I know nothing about this area: Is this an acceptable solution (in which
> case I will close this report); or should it work out-of-the-box with no
> configuration?

It could be that Emacs should do this on that platform automatically,
yes.  But some Darwin expert should look into this and provide
feedback, before we decide.

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