files completions for german umlauts

Klaus Ethgen <[email protected]> Fri, 9 Jan 2026 21:32:24 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.shells.zsh.devel,gmane.comp.shells.zsh.user
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Hello,

I use zsh for quite a while now. But recently completions stopped
working when a german umlaut is in the path. More specific, the german
umlaut itself gets completed but no element below that path (for
example, having a german umlaut in the name of a directory, not file
under it gets completed).

For my setup, I use ISO latin1 and no utf8. My system is Gentoo and
there was no recent update of zsh or zsh-completions. The version of zsh
is 5.9-r6 and the one of zsh-completions is 0.35.0.

Any help how to debug that issue and how to find the reason why it stops
working?

That issue is very annoying as I have many files below such paths that
are pretty long and have also whitespaces in it.

Regards
   Klaus
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