[OS X Emacs] Re: Return of dired mode problems like in Aquaemacs 1.7

[Uwe Pieczynski]

Oops I forgot:
Both lines are needed.
Aquaemacs 1.8c works without that like Carbon Emacs too.
Only Aquaemacs 2.0p2 needs this.

Greetings, Uwe

Uwe Pieczynski schrieb:
> Now I got it.
> Error is only in Aquaemacs 2.0p2.
> 
> In Carbon Emacs (Emacs.app) and /usr/bin/emacs everything works fine.
> As a workaround I set in .emacs (Homedir) the following lines:
> [...]
> (setenv "LC_CTYPE" "de_DE.UTF-8")
> (setenv "LANG" "de_DE.UTF-8")
>  [...]
> 
> With this lines Aquaemacs 2.0p2 is fine too.
> 
> Greetings, Uwe
> 
> David Reitter schrieb:
>> On Aug 15, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>>>> export LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-15
>>>>>
>>>>> on a Mac (NS port), and a directory that contains a folder named
>>>>> "Tätää"(i.e. a German umlaut), viewing the directory with `dired'
>>>>> fails with an error message.
>>> Interestingly this works with the X client version! The problem it
>>> has, is with the date of a file:
>>>
>>>  -rw-r--r--    1 pete  admin    15421 29 Nov  2004 EnvironmentVars.html
>>>  -rw-r--r--    1 pete  admin    13601 16 M\344r  2005 Georgisch
>>>
>>> The other problem is with displaying a directory or file name with
>>> umlaut in mode-line: instead of using the composed character from the
>>> font its constituents are taken from various fonts and thrown together...
>>>
>>>
>>> Your problem in Emacs.app is easily reproduced by having a clean 7-bit
>>> directory with clean 7-bit files – and at least one entry with a date
>>> that has an umlaut, for example: Mär!
>>>
>>> When LC_CTYPE and LANG are de_DE.UTF-8 then this month name does *not*
>>> produce an error:
>>>
>>>  lrwxr-xr-x     1 root  admin       11  7 Mär 13:46 etc -> private/etc
>>>
>>> After any error has occurred, this fine presentation is destroyed and
>>> we're back at M\344r!
>> OK, so I can't reproduce this easily with Emacs.app, that is, with a
>> vanilla build of Emacs 23.1 (or its CVS branch that is, NextStep port).
>>
>> I can reproduce it with Aquamacs 2.0-series.
>>
>> How do you reproduce?  Where do you set these env vars, in Emacs with
>> setenv, or in the login shell, or in the parent process that starts
>> Emacs (e.g., Terminal/shell)?
>>
>> Thanks
>> - David
>>
>>
>>
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