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

[Michael Sperber]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> 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.

As Mads pointed out, Dired works with many locales.  It should work with
even more once the next version will be out, which I hope to do this
week.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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