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Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts
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Nikolaj Schumacher |
Subject: |
Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:44:03 +0100 |
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Markus <mnissl@gmx.de> wrote:
> But I guess this is maybe not only an Emacs bug, but also one in Mac
> OS X. In the recent years, Linux finally succeeded in dealing with
> umlauts well. But I quit Linux three years ago for the Mac ... I
> didn't expect such annoying things to reappear :-(
Actually ...
As I said OSX uses a different method for representing umlauts. But at
least it uses that representation exclusively in its FS.
GNU/Linux supports BOTH representations. For instance, if you rsync
"rückerstattung" from a Linux machine to a Mac machine and back, you
will end up with 2 files named "rückerstattung". Each will have a
different representation to the machine but will look indistinguishable
to the user. Completing will work nicely on one, but have the very same
problems on the other...
I don't think either OS is to blame. It's an app (or maybe string
library) problem. Nobody expects the same character to have two legal
representations.
(Did someone say Unicode was the /end/ to all encoding woes?)
regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, (continued)
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Peter Dyballa, 2008/03/10
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- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Markus, 2008/03/11
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Peter Dyballa, 2008/03/11
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- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Markus, 2008/03/13
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Peter Dyballa, 2008/03/13
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- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Markus, 2008/03/16
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Peter Dyballa, 2008/03/16
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- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Markus, 2008/03/09
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- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/12
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Nikolaj Schumacher, 2008/03/12
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/12
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/12
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/13
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/13
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Nikolaj Schumacher, 2008/03/13
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/13
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/13
Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/13