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Date:	Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:48:47 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Wrong output with ls and german umlauts
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:30:20PM +0200, Markus Brandt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using Cygwin under a german Windows XP.
> When listening files or directories which contains umlauts - like ä, ö, ü,
> Ä, Ö, Ü or ß - th ls command only prints a '?' in place where the umlauts
> should be.

That has nothing to do with Cygwin but is default behaviour of ls.
When output is a tty, it doesn't print only printable ASCII chars
(32 <= char <= 126).  The option you're searching for is
--show-control-chars.  The man page is your friend!

Corinna

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