Re: [Bug #117375] Long standing bug in XEmacs' dired

Boris> This means that XEmacs' dired does not work correctly on Boris> all non-english-configured Linux distributions because all Boris> of them should be using the localisation features for a Boris> long time. Asian ones haven't had them available until glibc 2.1; Japanese still does not work "out-of-the-box" as of 2.1.95. (This seems to be an issue with other important apps not being recompiled against recent glibcs, but the effect is the same: localization is not used.) Boris> So it's really needed to fix XEmacs I think. Boris> How could it be done? Boris> 2. Unset the LC variables when calling programs where you Boris> expect english output. I would say this is the most portable thing to do as a fallback. Setting LC_ALL="C". Localizing dired for this purpose is probably not really an option because you cannot determine the appropriate date regexp easily from the locale. (It's not as easy as substituting nl_langinfo(ABMON_1) for "Jan".) -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."