[CentOS] ls : not UTF-8 compliant?
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Wed Feb 20 21:38:03 UTC 2008
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 $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
[mpeters at jerusalem tmp]$
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