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

[Michael Sperber]

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

> Michael Sperber writes:
>
>  > I wish it were that simple: LC_ALL=XXX doesn't always influence the
>  > locale, notably on Windows and via EFS.
>
> The complaints we get about this are not from Windows/EFS users (at
> least not the majority; I don't remember any, but that may be a
> symptom of incipient Alzheimer's or lack of an ITS).  So maybe "all
> locales" is too strong, but for dired of local file systems on POSIX
> platforms, we should never see a "no file on this line" error in the
> default configuration.

How's this: I make this configurable (default: no locale-munging), we
push out a new version, which is supposedly much better with the
locales, and the first bug report we get about this, I turn the switch
and cut a new release?

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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