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find-dired could handle/avoid octal escapes printed by GNU find -ls for non-ASCII filenames

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Message #40 received at 36085 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Tomas Nordin <tomasn <at> posteo.net>
Cc: grindeg <at> yandex.ru, 36085 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36085: 26.2; find-dired octal escapes instead of Cyrillic text
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2019 15:51:56 +0300

> From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn <at> posteo.net>
> Cc: 36085 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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.

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