bug#52166: Dired doesn't handle filenames with newlines

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tor Kringeland <tor.a.s.kringeland@ntnu.no>
> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 20:26:21 +0100
> 
> Create a file named `
> file.txt` in `dired' (that is, with a newline included).  It's possible
> to mark this file, but when I try to delete it, `dired' complains that
> there is "No file on this line".
> 
> Moreover, only "file.txt" is displayed on the next line, with no
> indication that the filename starts with a newline.  This makes it easy
> to miss it at a glance.  It could be helpful to have an option of the
> filename instead being displayed like "^Jfile.txt" instead.

You need to add -b to the ls switches used by Dired, and then you will
have what you want.