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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 20:27:49 +0300

> From: Waleed Yousef <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 17:33:22 +0000
> 
> Thanks so much for your patience:
> 
> $ locale
> LANG=
> LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
> LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
> LC_TIME="POSIX"
> LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
> LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
> LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
> LC_PAPER="POSIX"
> LC_NAME="POSIX"
> LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
> LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
> LC_ALL=

That's your problem: you are in the POSIX locale, which is not
appropriate for your environment.  I don't know how, but you need to
reconfigure your system to something like en_US.utf8.