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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2019 15:51:56 +0300

> From: Tomas Nordin <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2019 14:34:45 +0200
> 
> Here on 27.0.50 the customize option for `find-ls-option` says
> 
>     For example, to use human-readable file sizes with GNU ls:
>        ("-exec ls -ldh {} +" . "-ldh")
> 
> Is it ignorant to suggest to try this as a workaround?

No, it isn't ignorant.  Thanks for mentioning it.  Although invoking
'ls' for each and every file reported by 'find' sounds gross to me,
and is definitely slower.

> > I suggest to report this bug to the GNU Findutils developers.
> 
> Because ls doesn't seem to do this conversion -- inconsistent? :P

Mainly because doing so with non-ASCII characters is highly
inappropriate nowadays.