Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp and Chinese (was: dired-do-toggle)

[Per Starback]

RMS wrote:

> We have changed [dired-move-to-filename-regexp] several times. From
> experience, I have learned that every change there is risky. The
> danger is that when you generalize the part that should match one
> part of the line (such as the month), it may start to have false
> matches. These problems tend to happen in obscure locales, so that
> we don't find out about them in pretest, not until weeks or months
> go by.
> 
> So all I can say is, be very careful when you change this.
> We certainly don't want the change in 21.2, because we want
> to at least try to pretest it.

I for one think it would be better if dired used the C locale when
doing ls, like it did years ago.  Since emacs can't obey LANG anyway,
I think it's better to be consistent.  Having short random strings
in non-English in a program that otherwise speaks English is only
disturbing.