[Bug: 21.5-b28] XEmacs dired didn't work with FreeBSD ls

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Oct 3 01:08:36 EDT 2007


Aidan Kehoe writes:

 > Dired should set LANG=C when calling ls. 

Don't forget to CC Mike, and maybe add your
"Trying-To-Deal-With-Localized-ls-Is-Masochism-Movement" member
number.  Mine is #1. ;-)

The fact is that a lot of ISO-8859-X users want localized ls.  I think
they should get it, too---but only *after* we bullet-proof the default
implementation by coercing LANG to C.



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