bug#81606: Mojibake with UTF-8 file names

Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:41:29 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.emacs.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> Here's the patch I can suggest:
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/international/latexenc.el b/lisp/international/latexenc.el
> index 6e0cde6..1e0f8e7 100644
> --- a/lisp/international/latexenc.el
> +++ b/lisp/international/latexenc.el
> @@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ latexenc-find-file-coding-system
>                                       (stringp TeX-master)
>                                       TeX-master)
>                                  (bound-and-true-p tex-main-file)))))
> +                ;; Decode the main file name as best as we can...
> +                (setq file (decode-coding-string file 'undecided))
>                  (dolist (ext `("" ,(if (boundp 'TeX-default-extension)
>                                         (concat "." TeX-default-extension)
>                                       "")

Thanks.  I also suggest that the AUCTeX documentation mentions the
importance of the 'coding:' cookie for master file names with
non-ASCII characters.


    Werner