[CentOS] ls : not UTF-8 compliant?

[Michael A. Peters]

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 çarp
> [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 çarp
[mpeters at jerusalem tmp]$ ls
çarp
[mpeters at jerusalem tmp]$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
[mpeters at jerusalem tmp]$