From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Nikita <grindeg@yandex.ru>
Cc: 36085@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36085: 26.2; find-dired octal escapes instead of Cyrillic text
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2019 14:34:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftojos2i.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83v9xgnu9p.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Nikita <grindeg@yandex.ru>
>> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 08:43:06 +0500
>>
>> When i open dired, go to the needed directory, run "M-x dired-find"
>> "-name "*Портрет*" (or anything at all that will give some results)
>> results come back with octal escapes instead of Cyrillic letters.
>> I cannot open pictures that it finds for example.
>
> Turns out the octal escapes are produced by 'find' itself in this
> case. Try the following command in that directory from the shell
> prompt:
>
> find . \( -iname "*Портрет*" \) -ls
>
> and you will see the same octal escape instead of the Cyrillic
> characters. The man page for 'find' clearly documents this, under
> "Unusual Filenames":
>
> Unusual characters are handled differently by various actions, as
> described below.
> [...]
>
> -ls, -fls
> Unusual characters are always escaped. White space, backslash,
> and double quote characters are printed using C-style escaping
> (for example `\f', `\"'). Other unusual characters are printed
> using an octal escape. Other printable characters (for -ls and
> -fls these are the characters between octal 041 and 0176) are
> printed as-is.
>
> What this means is that any non-ASCII character will be converted to a
> series of octal escapes. IMO, this is a terrible misfeature in GNU
> Findutils, as such "handling" of non-ASCII characters has no place in
> today's global environment.
Here on 27.0.50 the customize option for `find-ls-option` says
For example, to use human-readable file sizes with GNU ls:
("-exec ls -ldh {} +" . "-ldh")
Is it ignorant to suggest to try this as a workaround? It "worked" here.
Thanks for this bug anyway because i have had the same issue sometimes
and I will continue use this option and see if it makes any problems.
>
> I suggest to report this bug to the GNU Findutils developers.
Because ls doesn't seem to do this conversion -- inconsistent? :P
Best regards
--
Tomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-09 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-04 3:43 bug#36085: 26.2; find-dired octal escapes instead of Cyrillic text Nikita
2019-06-04 11:44 ` bug#36085: Screenshots for th bug Никита Никита
2019-06-08 12:20 ` bug#36085: 26.2; find-dired octal escapes instead of Cyrillic text Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-09 12:34 ` Tomas Nordin [this message]
2019-06-09 12:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-08 15:14 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-06-08 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-09 5:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-09 9:08 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-06-09 10:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-09 12:39 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-06-09 12:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-13 6:05 ` Visuwesh
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