GNU bug report logs - #3443
[h-e-w] 23.0.93; dired encoding

Previous Next

Full log

Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Kostafey <at> yandex.ru, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org, help-emacs-windows <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] 23.0.93; dired encoding
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:55:19 -0400

> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 23:09:52 +0800
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org, help-emacs-windows <at> gnu.org
> 
> Konstantin wrote:
> > On type M-x dired emacs shows \316\362\361\363\362\361\362\342\363\345\362 instead of root.
> >   
> 
> > My codepage is 1251.
> 
> 
> Would Отсутствует be correct?

Unless I'm blind, `file-attributes' does not decode the user and group
names by the locale's encoding, is that true?  It should, IMO.

If I'm right, this problem should show on other platforms as well, not
just on Windows, when the owner's or group's names include non-ASCII
characters.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.