bug#23722: 24.5; Problem of displaying arabic font in dired mode

[Waleed Yousef]

Thanks so much for both of you;

Yes it helps and resolves the problem to visit the directory with what
you said:
C-x RET c utf-8 RET C-x C-f FILE-NAME RET


However:

1- why this happened; I just had this problem 2 days ago!!
2- what should I do to resolve it permenantly?


Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> Does it help to visit this file with
>>
>>    C-x RET c utf-8 RET C-x C-f FILE-NAME RET
>
> Should one have to do that with dired buffers?
>
> The original report indicates that LANG etc are all unset, and
> locale-coding-system = nil. Relevant?