Subject: bug#36085: 26.2; find-dired octal escapes instead of Cyrillic text

From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2019 17:14:11 +0200

Eli wrote:

> P.S. Emacs could perhaps go above and beyond the call of duty, and attempt to convert the octal escapes back to readable text. But I don't think we should do it, as it's a clear bug in 'find'. Nonetheless, if someone wants to submit patches to do such a conversion, I won't block them. 

The default (BSD) find in macOS does not seem to escape anything; files named Портрет or APL\360 are printed exactly that way. Thus, Emacs would need to know what 'find' it is running. This appears to validate your recommendation.