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bug#3432: [h-e-w] 23.0.93; dired encoding
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#3432: [h-e-w] 23.0.93; dired encoding |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:32:21 -0400 |
> Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:25:25 +0800
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> CC: Kostafey@yandex.ru, 3432@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
>
> Other platforms don't in general use the internal ls-lisp implementation
> to generate dired buffers, and most systems use utf-8 encoding in the
> locale these days, so even if file-attributes is called somewhere else
> with 'string as its second argument, there is a good chance that Emacs
> 23 will display the username correctly without decoding.
>
> Also, while trying to test this, adduser refused to work, advising:
>
> adduser: To avoid problems, the username should consist only of
> letters, digits, underscores, periods, at signs and dashes, and not
> start with
> a dash (as defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001).
>
> So the probability of users on other systems running into this bug are
> fairly low.
OK, but the solution should still be general, in `file-attributes',
and it is to decode the string by locale-coding-system, don't you
agree?