Re: Emacs.app 9.0-rc1 released

Hi Carsten,

Does the this one work for you?
https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/emacs-mac/CarbonEmacs/trunk/GPL/ 
lisp/utf-8m.el

-- Seiji

On 2006/12/29, at 19:03, Carsten Bormann wrote:

> Even though the little annoyances Christopher notes remain,  
> Emacs.app works quite well (and is rather snappy) on my MBPC2D.
> Great work!
>
> My biggest usability problem so far is Umlauts in file names.
> These are stored in decomposed form in Mac HFS+ (and, while this is  
> hard to believe, actually delivered up to the system call interface  
> in this form).
> Emacs is not very good in displaying characters of this form, and  
> it is rather non-intuitive to look at a file "Grüße.txt" in dired  
> and not being able to search for the ü in it.
>
> Carbon Emacs includes a nice hack utf-8m.el that defines a new file- 
> name-coding-system utf-8m which fixes up Mac filenames in this  
> respect.
> Unfortunately, it is Emacs 22 (< 23) specific and relies on mac- 
> code-convert-string (mac.c), which is not available in Emacs.app.
>
> So I whipped up a really ugly little hack of a previous version of  
> utf-8m.el, which did not use mac-code-convert-string.
> (Unfortunately, this also means it only handles the most likely  
> [for me] cases of decomposed characters.  I'd rather have mac-code- 
> convert-string, as this is a Mac-inflicted problem, and should be  
> solved with Mac tools.  Anyway.)
>
> You can download this hack at
>
>    http://www.viele-koeche.org/utf-8m-23.el
>
> and use it in your .emacs like this:
>
>   (load "~/el/utf-8m-23") ; or whereever you put it
>   (set-file-name-coding-system 'utf-8m)
>
> I know way too little about Emacs internals (and much less about  
> Emacs 23 internals) to say whether this is kosher, the right way to  
> do etc.
> WORKSFORME(TM), though -- I now can use Emacs.app for everyday work.
> While we are waiting for someone to come up with a real solution,  
> enjoy...
>
> Gruesse, Carsten
>
> > I've compiled the new version and have uploaded it to the same  
> > URL.  However, font preferences still do not seem to work via  
> > Preferences or the Options menu.  Preferences...Default Font  
> > brings up a font dialog, but choosing a different font has no  
> > discernible effect even after hitting "OK".  Using Options...Set  
> > Font/Fontset... brings up a font dialog, and choosing a different  
> > font has an immediate effect in the Emacs window, but if you then  
> > select Options...Save Options, you get the error "Wrong type  
> > argument: commandp, menu-bar-options-save".  Note that, as you'd  
> > expect, I *was* able to set the font the old-fashioned way by  
> > selecting Options...Customize Emacs...Specific Face, hitting  
> > return and then modifying the desired font (notably, Default)  
> > manually inside the Emacs customization window and selecting "Save  
> > for Future Sessions".

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