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Re: Error bunzip2ing files with non-ASCI-names
From: |
Heinz Rommerskirchen |
Subject: |
Re: Error bunzip2ing files with non-ASCI-names |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:05:49 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) |
Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
> Rommerskirchen, Heinrich wrote:
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>> On my GNU/Linux (SuSE 9.3) workstation emacs is unable to bunzip2
>> files whose names are not ASCII, maybe because file names are utf-8
>> encoded on
>> this system.
>> Steps to reproduce this bug:
>> In the shell:
>> > echo xx > bä.txt # the second letter of the filename is a-Umlaut
>> > bzip2 bä.txt > emacs -q --no-site-file
>> In emacs
>> - type "M-x auto-compression-mode"
>> - open a dired buffer which contains the file (the filename is displayed
>> correctly with the Umlaut), - move point to the file and press enter
>> The error message "File exists, but cannot be read" is displayed and an
>> empty
>> buffer is created. If I rename the file with dired-do-rename to
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>
> What happens if you visit bä.txt with `C-x C-f' instead of via Dired?
>
> --
> Kevin Rodgers
I assumed you mean open bä.txt.bz2 with `C-x C-f'; this gives the same
behaviour (error message and empty buffer). bä.txt can be opened in any
way I can think of without problems
--
Regards
Heinz