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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 07:57:06 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Waleed Yousef <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 16:45:08 -0400
> 
> 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?

No.  It was part of diagnosing the problem.

> The original report indicates that LANG etc are all unset, and
> locale-coding-system = nil. Relevant?

Probably, but I have no idea how that could happen.