GNU bug report logs - #36085
find-dired could handle/avoid octal escapes printed by GNU find -ls for non-ASCII filenames

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Message #22 received at 36085 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: mattiase <at> acm.org, grindeg <at> yandex.ru
Cc: 36085 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36085: 26.2; find-dired octal escapes instead of Cyrillic text
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2019 08:22:09 +0300

> Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 18:34:48 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: grindeg <at> yandex.ru, 36085 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Indeed, the hard part is to distinguish between \nnn an octal escape
> and the literal string "\nnn".  That difficulty is one reason why
> gdb-mi.el performs a similar decoding only as an opt-in optional
> behavior.

Here's an idea for making this command work with non-ASCII file names:
do NOT add "-ls" to the 'find' command line, then in the process
filter function call file-attributes on each file name we receive from
'find', and format the result according to Dired convention before
inserting it into the buffer.

Any takers?

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