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Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale
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Dave Love |
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Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale |
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03 Feb 2003 17:44:08 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> Is it worth the trouble?
I'm confused by what's being discussed here, but it is surely worth
the trouble to have dired working properly in multibyte locales.
> As far as I know the problem only occurs with
> newlines in filenames,
No. In locale en_GB.UTF-8 in Debian Woody, create a file with
arbitrary Latin-1 characters in the name and observe that dired
positioning screws up after that filename occurs.
It works in 21.2 (using my utf-8 language definition) and worked in
the development code as it was before Christmas. It no longer does in
the development code. [I made some other changes to dired, unrelated
to encoding and not installed, and thought I'd broken it somehow.]
> Why is it more useful to count in characters?
Because that makes it easier for Emacs, which is --dired's stated
intention.
> Of course that makes things a bit simpler for emacs, but counting in
> bytes has the advantage that a tool doesn't have to be support the
> coding system ls does in order to grab the filenames.
That's exactly what I said, but if you don't support the encoding, you
lose anyhow.
[None of this actually helps people with an ls which doesn't support
--dired, of course. I still think you should consider using a
specified LC_TIME. If it's a real problem that users won't get the
date in the format they expect, run ls twice, first to find the names
with LC_TIME=C and then to display the results.]
- Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale, (continued)
- Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale, Kenichi Handa, 2003/02/03
- Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale, Miles Bader, 2003/02/03
- Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale, Kenichi Handa, 2003/02/03
- Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale, Miles Bader, 2003/02/03
- Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale, Jim Meyering, 2003/02/03
- Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale, Andreas Schwab, 2003/02/03
- Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale, Kenichi Handa, 2003/02/03
- Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale, Dave Love, 2003/02/13
- Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale, Kenichi Handa, 2003/02/17
- Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale, Dave Love, 2003/02/03
Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale,
Dave Love <=
Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale, Jim Meyering, 2003/02/03
Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale, Richard Stallman, 2003/02/03