Subject: Re: UTF-8 file names?
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/11/2004 15:31:11
[ On Monday, October 4, 2004 at 17:47:54 (+0200), Thomas Klausner wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: UTF-8 file names?
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 06:49:29PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > After adding a "static" before fputwcr, this compiles and works fine
> > for me.
>
> Actually, I'm not quite sure that's correct. With an UTF terminal,
> and a filename consisting of all special German letters (äöüÄÖÜß),
> and LC_CTYPE set to en_US.UTF-8 (LANG not set), ls gives me:
> "äö ? ? ? ? ?", while ls -w correctly gives me "äöüÄÖÜß" -- I
> thought the point was that I wouldn't need -w?
Isn't that simply because your filename is stored in ISO-8859-1
byte-coded characters but the UTF-8 world only allows transparency for
7-bit ASCII?
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