Dired doesn't decode UTF-8 file names (was: Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings)

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 24.08.2006 um 16:27 schrieb Kevin Rodgers:
> 
>> There is no reason to set dired-use-ls-dired to anything but t or nil.
>> In particular, it does not determine which ls program is run.  Try:
>>
>> (setq insert-directory-program "/sw/bin/ls"
>>       dired-use-ls-dired t)
> 
> Am 24.08.2006 um 16:35 schrieb Miles Bader:
> 
>> So I guess the following should work:
>>
>>    (setq dired-use-ls-dired t)
>>    (setq insert-directory-program "/sw/bin/gls")
> 
> 
> Oh, yes, these work! Thank you! There isn't much difference compared to 
> using Apple's ls; in GNU Emacs 22.0.50 UTF-8 characters are still 
> displayed as a series of UTF-8 octets, and in GNU Emacs 23.0.0 I still 
> cannot search for file names with German umlauts etc.

That is the first mention of UTF-8 in this thread.  Mile suggested using
GNU ls --dired to solve the OP's problem with date-like filenames.

Is file-name-coding-system (or default-file-name-coding-system) set
to utf-8?  Should it be?

Is there an entry in process-coding-system-alist for ls?  Should there
be?

-- 
Kevin