Subject: bug#23722: 24.5; Problem of displaying arabic font in dired mode

From: Waleed Yousef <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 00:10:34 +0000

Thanks so much for both of you;

Yes it helps and resolves the problem to visit the directory with what
you said:
C-x RET c utf-8 RET C-x C-f FILE-NAME RET

However:

1- why this happened; I just had this problem 2 days ago!!
2- what should I do to resolve it permenantly?

Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> Does it help to visit this file with
>>
>>    C-x RET c utf-8 RET C-x C-f FILE-NAME RET
>
> Should one have to do that with dired buffers?
>
> The original report indicates that LANG etc are all unset, and
> locale-coding-system = nil. Relevant?