Subject: bug#4151: non-utf locale leads to errors in `decode-coding-region' (dired)

From: Alan Third <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 20:45:47 +0000

David Reitter <[email-masked]> writes:

> With
>
> export LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-15
>
> on a Mac (NS port), and a directory that contains a folder named
> "Tätää"(i.e. a German umlaut), viewing the directory with `dired'
> fails with an error message.  The trace is below.
>
> The bugs here are
> 1. `decode-coding-region' signals an error (it is not documented to do
> so)
> 2. with this locale, "ls -la" will not output utf-8-nfd, even though
> it seems that we expect this.

Hi, I can't reproduce this with Emacs 25. Are you still seeing this
problem with a recent build?

-- 
Alan Third