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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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Nikita <grindeg <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 04:12:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 41488

Found in versions 26.2, 26.3

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: grindeg <at> yandex.ru, 36085 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36085: 26.2; find-dired octal escapes instead of Cyrillic text
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 11:08:51 +0200

9 juni 2019 kl. 07.22 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
> 
> 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.

Maybe we can trust -print0 to work everywhere (BSD find has it).

It's probably a quaint notion, but I wish Emacs were be able to do without the help of external programs for something as basic as listing directories.
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