Subject: Re: "Accented" characters
From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 19:21:30 +0100

Hi everybody,

> Henrik Johansson wrote:
> > There is a couple of problems, however.  When I write (in bash)
> >         ls //c/tmp/l*.txt
> > the response is
> >         //c/tmp/l?smig.txt
> > even though the real filename is "läsmig.txt" (the second character in
> > the filename has the code 228, or 0xE4...it is an 'a' with two dots).

Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
>         chcp 1252

Ok, after some private exchange with Dan Herron
<[email-masked]> I caved in and actually tested these
things instead of just shooting from the hip ;-). Note that all that
follows is only tested with b18 (good enough for my occasional tests
until now).

Firstly, in b18 bash needs the complete filename for CHCP, so it's
actually "chcp.com 1252".

Secondly, bash needs some additional configuration in ~/.inputrc (copied
from my Linux box):

>>>>>>>>>>>
set convert-meta Off
set output-meta On
<<<<<<<<<<<

Thirdly and lastly, for ls to show 8-bit chars correctly, the "-N" (AKA
"--literal") option is needed, so

  ls -N

does the job.

so long, benny
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Benjamin Riefenstahl ([email-masked])
Crocodial Communications EntwicklungsGmbH
Ruhrstr. 61, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany

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