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


From: Kenichi Handa
Subject: Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:10:48 +0900 (JST)
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In article <address@hidden>, Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
>>  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, 

Really?  I thought ls's output counts columns, thus, for
instnace, the filename "À" is counted as 1, not 2.
Otherwise, the current dired should work well.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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