Re: Quotes in Dired listing switches

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> That's a shortcoming of Tramp which should only use LC_ALL=C for
> commands whose output is parsed by Tramp but not for those whose output
> is passed to the caller.  Then again, we may have the problem of
> choosing between the caller's locale and the remote host's default
> locale, I don't know.  In any case it's probably not a terribly
> important problem for now, but should be kept somewhere as a thing that
> would be nice to fix.

Already noted in the Todo list of tramp.el (in my local branch). I'll
commit any change for this only after-the-release.

One idea is to check the $LANG and/or $LC_ALL settings on the remote
host, once connected, and to DTRT then. Whatever this is.

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.