Michael A. Peters wrote: > 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 $LANG > en_US.UTF-8 > [mpeters at jerusalem tmp]$ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Interesting! Perhaps it is a quirk of ssh using PuTTY. I haven't tried it on the monitor connected. Did you try in on the monitor and CLI (no X, no Gnome etc)?