Problem with special characters in dired and attachment paths

Problem with special characters in dired and attachment paths

[Martin Beck]

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Re: Problem with special characters in dired and attachment paths

[M]

it seems that this is a bug (or missing feature) of Emacs on MS Windows:

see http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=15236

Did noone else using Emacs on Windows encounter those problems?

Kind regards

Martin


> Datum: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:42:59 +0200 (CEST)
> An: emacs orgmode-mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
> Betreff: [O] Problem with special characters in dired and attachment paths
> 
> 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 Zubehör which is opened instead of
> the right one.
>  
> How can I solve those 2 problems?
>  
> Kind regards
>  
> Martin
>  
>