bug#31272: 25.3; Directory with weird name cannot be opened via SFTP

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Christoph Michelbach <michelbach94@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:26:05 +0200
> 
> When I try to open a directory with some weird character in its name on
> an SSH resource via dired, Emacs does not show the contents of the
> directory but instead opens a buffer for a new (empty) text file.
> 
> One of these directory names is "šbung" (without the quotes). Because
> this weird character might not make it to you via email: The name is
> "\232bung" or "C2 9A 62 75 6E 67" (in hexadecimal).
> 
> Opening a directory named like this via dired is no problem when its on
> my local hard drive. On an SFTP resource, the problem always
> occurs. It's not inherent to the directory where I discovered the
> problem but inherent in the directory's name.

Can you try the release candidate of Emacs 26.1 and see if the problem
is still there?  RC1 is available from alpha.gnu.org.

Thanks.