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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:33:08 +0300

> From: David Reitter <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:10:32 -0400
> Cc: 
> 
> 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.

Thanks for the report, but please use report-emacs-bug to do that, or
copy the necessary information it provides to whatever MUA you use to
send.  In this case, essential information about your Emacs version
and date of build is missing.