GNU bug report logs - #7100
24.0.50; Emacs for MS Windows cannot handle Unicode file name

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Packages: emacs, w32;

Reported by: =5ddd=5e61 =592a=4e00 <kawabata.taichi <at> gmail.com>( Taichi KAWABATA )

Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:22:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 12807, 15236

Found in versions 24.0.50, 24.2, 24.3.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 7100-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: kawabata.taichi <at> gmail.com
Cc: 7100-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7100: 24.0.50;
 Emacs for MS Windows cannot handle Unicode file name
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:25:55 +0200
> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:25:07 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 7100 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > From: =5ddd=5e61 =592a=4e00 <kawabata.taichi <at> gmail.com>( Taichi KAWABATA )
> > Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:25:07 +0900
> > Cc: 
> > 
> > As MS Windows Emacs only uses fopen(), readdir(), etc., for handling
> > file names, Emacs can not handle Unicode file names.  If Windows uses
> > CP1252, only file names with CP1252 characters can be properly displayed
> > with Emacs.  (In dired, Unicode file names will be displayed as
> > undecipherable file name that contains tilde characters.)
> 
> This is currently a missing feature in the Windows build of Emacs.
> Patches are most welcome.

Since no one stepped forward with the patches, I did it myself.

Starting with trunk revision 115490, Emacs on Windows can access file
names whose names include characters outside of the current ANSI
codepage.




This bug report was last modified 11 years and 213 days ago.

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