* lisp/dired.el (dired-get-filename): Don't string-to-multibyte

We don't need to convert manually to multibyte now that Emacs doesn't silently
convert (uni)bytes into latin-N chars depending on locale any more.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/dired.el b/lisp/dired.el
index ef069d23453..1c283c5de3f 100644
--- a/lisp/dired.el
+++ b/lisp/dired.el
@@ -2352,12 +2352,7 @@ Otherwise, an error occurs in these cases."
                   (setq start (match-end 0))))))
 
           ;; Hence we don't need to worry about converting `\\' back to `\'.
-          (setq file (read (concat "\"" file "\"")))
-          ;; The above `read' will return a unibyte string if FILE
-          ;; contains eight-bit-control/graphic characters.
-          (if (and enable-multibyte-characters
-                   (not (multibyte-string-p file)))
-              (setq file (string-to-multibyte file)))))
+          (setq file (read (concat "\"" file "\"")))))
     (and file (files--name-absolute-system-p file)
          (setq already-absolute t))
     (cond