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bug#16667: Accented home dir stops ELPA package
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#16667: Accented home dir stops ELPA package |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Feb 2014 18:13:24 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 16667@debbugs.gnu.org, cedric.sauriol@umontreal.ca
> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 08:50:22 -0500
>
> > Hmm... can you tell which code called autoload-find-file?
>
> It's called from autoload-generate-file-autoloads itself called from
> package-generate-autoloads via update-directory-autoloads.
>
> A possible explanation is if the `directory-files' call in
> update-directory-autoloads (which requests full names, so the output
> file names include the "c:/Users/PropriƩtaire.AlienwareCedric/"
> prefix) returns mis-encoded names. E.g. prepends default-directory but
> marks the result as unibyte, or something.
Yes, but how would a unibyte string escape from C in the first place?
Does any of the functions involved encode file names by hand?
> > But we did fix quite a few problems related to building and running
> > Emacs from non-ASCII directories, so maybe this was one of them.
>
> That's right. Could someone try to reproduce the problem in 24.3 and
> then see if it's fixed in trunk?
It's not easy to do, because this is the user's home directory, so you
need to have a user with a non-ASCII character in her name. And the
C:/Users directory is not generally writable, or at least it isn't
supposed to be.
Why don't you ask that guy to install a development snapshot? If the
problem persists, we can help him then.