From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin Beck" Subject: Problem with special characters in dired and attachment paths Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:42:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VCAYw-0002KN-7A for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:43:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VCAYn-00041Z-Ra for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:43:10 -0400 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.11]:50248) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VCAYn-000414-HL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:43:01 -0400 Received: from 3capp-webde-bs17.server.lan ([172.19.170.17]) by mriweb.server.lan (mriweb002) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LZiza-1Vv6lj0gnc-00lS0M for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:42:59 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs orgmode-mailinglist

I'm having problems with special characters like äöü in dired mode and in attachment paths:

1) When I'm trying to access a directory with M-x dired, the displayed path contains strange characters like e.g. "\374" for "ü" or "\366" for "ö".

Same is true for directory and file listings displayed by dired.

Is there a setting which can make dired display the characters with the correct encoding?

2) my other problem seems to be related:

I currently added a long server path as attachment directory in org-mode, like

//servername/dir1/dir2/dir2/dir4/etcetera/Zubehör/

(I usually copy the UNC path in Windows 7 Explorer with the PathCopy context menu)

The path is shown like that in :ATTACH_DIR: in the properties with the "ö" correctly displayed.

When I type C-c C-a C-f to open the directory in Windows Explorer, it creates a new directory at the same path called ZubehÃ¶r which is opened instead of the right one.

How can I solve those 2 problems?

Kind regards

Martin