Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp and Chinese (was: dired-do-toggle)

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 7 Nov 2001, Per Starback wrote:

> I for one think it would be better if dired used the C locale when
> doing ls, like it did years ago.

You mean, Emacs should override the LANG setting so that `ls' printed its 
output in US English?

> Since emacs can't obey LANG anyway,

Emacs _does_ obey LANG, just not everywhere.

> I think it's better to be consistent.  Having short random strings
> in non-English in a program that otherwise speaks English is only
> disturbing.

Most users will disagree, judging by what I read here.  People want the 
months spelled in their native language.