Why dired does not work?
Dired scans the output of ls, but the output should not contain Japanese. Akira Kon <kon@quincy.d1.bs2.mt.nec.co.jp> writes: My machine is a SVR4 and ls gives an output like the following when LANG is set to Japanese. -rw-rw-r– 1 kon com 1002 10 $B7n (B30 $BF| (B 00 $B;~ (B22 $BJ, (B .bashrc -rw-r–r– 1 kon com 26387 11 $B7n (B18 $BF| (B 10 $B;~ (B06 $BJ, (B .emacs (The dates are in Japanese, you know.) But dired.el has a fragment of codes like: (defun dired-get-filename (&optional localp no-error-if-not-filep) (…deleted…) (beginning-of-line) (if (re-search-forward “\\(Jan\\|Feb\\|Mar\\|Apr\\|May\\|Jun\\|Jul\\|Aug\\|Sep\\|Oct\\|Nov\\|Dec\\)[ ]+[0-9]+” eol t) (progn (skip-chars-forward ” “) and this means, in short, that dired does not accept the output of Japanese `ls -l’. I believe that the following modification works for dired, but I am afraid that there are other programs that scan the output of UNIX commands.
