bug#15337: 24.3.50; [PATCH] cd to directory name with french accent fail from term/ansi-term

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
>> Cc: 15337@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 07:21:44 +0200
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > So please see if decoding the result of prog1 with
>> > decode-coding-string, like you suggested to do in 'cd', but before
>> > passing it to funcall, fixes the problem.  Something like this:
>> >
>> >      (funcall term-command-hook
>> >               (decode-coding-string
>> >                 (prog1 (substring str (1+ i) end)
>> >                    (setq i (match-end 0)))
>> >                 locale-coding-system))
>> 
>> Yes it is working
>
> Then please install.

I can't, please do it.

>> or just decoding 'string' in `term-command-hook' works too.
>
> I considered that as well, but decided that doing it before
> term-command-hook is called is better, since that hook might be
> redefined by users of term.el (right?).  So it is better to pass the
> hook an already decoded string, because Lisp code does not generally
> expect to get unibyte strings, especially if they are file names.

Ok.

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