Re: tramp (2.2.7-pre); Tramp incorrectly works with multibyte strings

[Michael Albinus]

Sergey Pashinin <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Sergey,

> When entering a dir (in dired mode) with cyrillic file names via tramp
> it gives an error: "wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p. nil"
>
> It only appears when dired-omit mode is enabled.  But if you disable
> it you are close to the root of the evil - you have another strange
> bug which I asked here about:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14002123/emacs-diredtramp-wrong-filenames-with-utf8
>  (+ screenshots)
>
> I think something is wrong in dealing with multibyte strings.
>
> Tramp (or dired) incorrectly detects filename length for some files with 
> russian symbols => can't work with these files
>
> Not sure but I think it's a tramp problem.

Could you please send some cyrillic file names per email? I would try to
play with them.

Best regards, Michael.