Sorry bugging you for this simple command. ls command displays question marks for the local characters (ones not included in 8859-1 space) in filenames. ie. [root at server aa]# touch ?arp [root at server aa]# ls ??arp [root at server aa]# ls -b #for octal escapes \303\247arp [root at server aa]# However, ls|less, ls|more or vi <directory name> all display filename correctly. Also, the <tab> completes such filenames in the correct way. Even, logsave command for the ls output prints the right characters. So, I assume the filesystem keeps the filenames in UTF-8 encoding, but somehow ls can not show them properly. Any workaround or a replacement for ls? BTW The system is Centos 5.1 and locale shows the encoding as UTF-8. Thank you.
Mufit Eribol wrote:> Sorry bugging you for this simple command. > > ls command displays question marks for the local characters (ones not > included in 8859-1 space) in filenames. > > ie. > [root at server aa]# touch ?arp > [root at server aa]# ls > ??arp > [root at server aa]# ls -b #for octal escapes > \303\247arp > [root at server aa]# > > However, ls|less, ls|more or vi <directory name> all display filename > correctly. Also, the <tab> completes such filenames in the correct way. > Even, logsave command for the ls output prints the right characters. > > So, I assume the filesystem keeps the filenames in UTF-8 encoding, but > somehow ls can not show them properly. > > Any workaround or a replacement for ls? BTW The system is Centos 5.1 and > locale shows the encoding as UTF-8. > > Thank you.Works for me. [mpeters at jerusalem tmp]$ touch ?arp [mpeters at jerusalem tmp]$ ls ?arp [mpeters at jerusalem tmp]$ echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 [mpeters at jerusalem tmp]$