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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 23:21:03 +0200

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

I think this was fixed by the recent changes in the way we decode file
names and list directories on OS X HFS filesystems.