Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale

[Michael Livshin]

Dave Love <address@hidden> writes:

> Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Is it worth the trouble?
>
> I'm confused by what's being discussed here, but it is surely worth
> the trouble to have dired working properly in multibyte locales.

I'm sorry for possibly asking a stupid question, but why does dired
use `ls' *at* *all*?

it looks like all the needed primitives are there in Emacs.

changing dired to use those sounds (to the naive me) far easier than
debugging Emacs<->ls interaction in all possible values of
(language-environment X ls-version).

just a thought,
--m

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