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

From: Waleed Yousef <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 14:11:17 +0000

But another problem existed, when I try to copy one of those Arabic name
files using dired (Shift C) it gives me the following error:

Error: Thu Jun  9 14:09:50 2016	Buffer `*scratch*'
file-error: (Opening input file No such file or directory FILENAME

Waleed Yousef <[email-masked]> writes:

> Thanks so much; done!!
>
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>>> 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.