GNU bug report logs - #23722
24.5; Problem of displaying arabic font in dired mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: wyousef <at> fcih.net

Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 22:03:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.5

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #50 received at 23722 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Waleed Yousef <wyousef <at> fcih.net>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 23722 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23722: 24.5; Problem of displaying arabic font in dired mode
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 20:27:49 +0300

> From: Waleed Yousef <wyousef <at> fcih.net>
> Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org,  23722 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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.
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