bug#4157: 23.1.50; faulty character characterisation for ä

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Like Andreas says, the dates are in Latin-9, but the file names are in
> UTF-8 (probably utf-8-hfs).  Maybe we should on macOS override the
> locale when we invoke 'ls'?

I like that idea.  Perhaps we could just make sure that the encoding
is always "UTF-8" while respecting the language.

> And I repeat my question: how about using ls-lisp.el on macOS by
> default?

IMHO, it would be better to improve the support for the BSD-derivative
'ls' versions.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas