Embarrassingly, I put my response in the wrong place, I've never used a mailing list before. Anyway, for future reference, here's my response:
Solved! (By setting current-language-environment to utf-8, it was set to english-something by default) I have no idea why I didn't check what encoding emacs was using by default right away. I had no encoding problems until this issue surfaced. Thank you! On May 8, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Christian Moe wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot reproduce AJR's problem (and I'm a happy user of both æøå and other > strange characters on the Mac). I created a dør.txt file and opened it with a > file:~/org/dør.txt link. I clicked a http://www.dører.no link and got the > appropriate URL in the Firefox address bar. > > I'm on Emacs 23.3.1 and OS X 10.6.8, with current-language-environment always > set to "UTF-8". > > AJR, do you only have this trouble with links, or do you experience other > encoding issues as well? > > Yours, > Christian > > On 5/8/12 11:03 AM, Bastien wrote: >> Hi, >> >> AJR<fjr...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> First I just wanted to thank everyone involved in creating orgmode, >>> it's amazing and it has pretty much sold me on emacs. But, I've had >>> some problems with links containing æøå. I'm an osx (lion) user. In >>> emacs 23.4 (9.0) no paths with æøå where possible to open. For >>> example, these did not work: >>> >>> file:~/dør.txt (didn't open) >>> http://www.dører.no (the url bar of firefox contained www.d¯rer.no >>> and, before that, some other strange formatting) >>> file:~/dør >> >> I can't reproduce this problem on my GNU/Linux machine but hopefully >> someone using MacOSX will help. >> >> Best, >> >
