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

From: Waleed Yousef <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 14:23:21 +0000

A third problem is that the Arabic file names do not show up in the ido
mode; all these problems are new!!

Waleed Yousef <[email-masked]> writes:

> 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.