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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: Markus Triska <markus.triska <at> gmx.at>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 2940 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2940: 23.0.92; C-s in dired fails to find files with umlauts
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:21:30 +0200

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

>>    (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?

In my personal use, I expected it to work out of the box. It was also
initially unclear to me that you need to explicitly require
ucs-normalize in order to use utf8-8-hfs. When you do, in "emacs -Q":

   (setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8-hfs)

you cannot do much anymore with that Emacs instance, since you get
"Invalid coding system: utf-8-hfs" on almost all key presses. This is a
general issue though that also happens when you mistype a coding system.

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