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[macOS/HFS] dired doesn't decode ls output when it uses different encoding for filename vs date

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 4157 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4157: 23.1.50; faulty character characterisation for ä
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 02:49:27 +0100

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE> writes:

>> Am 9.10.2019 um 21:47 schrieb Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> 
>> but... can you
>> check what is your locale set to (and ideally, maybe, check what/who
>> sets it)?
>
> I am using three areas to set LANG and LC_CTYPE, each to the value of
> "de_DE.UTF-8." This is necessary because of macOS (and then Mac OS X). First
> it's ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. This Property LIST file sets the two for the
> GUI login environment. Although all other processes should inherit from it I use
> constructs à la
>
> 	setenv LC_CTYPE	`defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment LC_CTYPE`
>
> or
>
> 	export LC_CTYPE=`defaults read "${HOME}/.MacOSX/environment" LC_CTYPE`
>
> in ~/.cshrc resp. ~/.profile (my login shell is tcsh 6.18.01 (Astron) 2012-02-14 (x86_64-apple-darwin) options wide,nls,dl,bye,al,kan,sm,rh,color,filec), and also in my ~/.xinitrc file that X11 also inherits these settings.
>
> Dired is set up to use gls (now GNU coreutils 8.31). The system's /bin/ls neither understands -D nor --dired.
>
> Performing a
>
> 	(shell-command "printenv | sort" nil "*stderr*")
>
> in mini-buffer reports, among others:
>
> 	LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> 	LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8

Thanks.  Are you still able to reproduce the original issue here?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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