Scott Silva wrote: > on 2/20/2008 3:14 PM Mufit Eribol spake the following: >> 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 �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 >>> 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)? > Remember that putty defaults to an iso character set unless you change > the defaults. > No way! I use UTF-8 for "Character set translation on received data" of PuTTY. Centos is a fresh install with the default LANG setting. What else should I try? Thank you for your support!