Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale

[Miles Bader]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
> I read his mail again, and found that the bug is not in
> chars vs bytes, but columns vs bytes.
> 
> So, ja_JP.eucJP was not a good example because, in that
> locale, column numbers and bytes are equal.
>
> Please try some UTF-8 locale (e.g. en_US.UTF-8) with Latin-1
> filenames.  I believe that the current dired will be
> confused.

Um, yes.  If LANG=en_US.utf-8, then ls's output seems to be correct,
counting by bytes, but dired screws it up for some reason...
I thought the current dired was supposed to also count by bytes?

-Miles
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