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Carbon Emacs won't start when installed in certain paths
From: |
David Reitter |
Subject: |
Carbon Emacs won't start when installed in certain paths |
Date: |
Tue, 22 May 2007 16:57:29 +0100 |
There is still the bug that the Carbon port won't start up when
installed in a directory that contains non 7-bit ASCII characters,
such as "Développement".
For the release, I would suggest to at least document this in
PROBLEMS (see below).
I recall that Yamamoto Mitsuharu had been looking into this. Mr
Yamamoto, would you like me to test your patch posted to -bugs on May
10th, and if so, does this replace the earlier patches you posted for
this bug?
*** etc/PROBLEMS 22 May 2007 16:44:33 +0100 1.229
--- etc/PROBLEMS 22 May 2007 16:52:44 +0100
***************
*** 1836,1841 ****
--- 1836,1848 ----
** Mac OS X
+ *** Mac OS X (Carbon): Emacs won't start if installed in certain
paths.
+
+ Starting the application fails if Emacs is installed in directories
+ whose names contain non 7-bit ASCII characters (such as
+ "Développement"). The workaround is to move the Emacs.app application
+ bundle out of such directories.
+
*** Mac OS X (Carbon): Environment Variables from dotfiles are
ignored.
When starting Emacs from the Dock or the Finder on Mac OS X, the
- Carbon Emacs won't start when installed in certain paths,
David Reitter <=