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On 12/30/2009 11:36 AM, Bengt Larsson wrote:
> I seem to have a problem with wildcards from the Windows command line
> when there are high-bit characters in a filename.
>
> A directory contains only the two files "user" and "användare"
> ("användare" being user in Swedish):
>
>    C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>ls -l
>    total 0
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 Bengt2 Users 0 2009-12-30 02:23 användare
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 Bengt2 Users 0 2009-12-30 02:23 user
>
>    C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>ls u*
>    user
>
>    C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>ls a*
>    ls: cannot access a*: No such file or directory
>
>    C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>ls *
>    ls: cannot access *: No such file or directory
>
> It works in bash and dash:
>
>    C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>bash
>    /users/Bengt2/Desktop/test/ttt: ls u*
>    user
>    /users/Bengt2/Desktop/test/ttt: ls a*
>    användare
>    /users/Bengt2/Desktop/test/ttt: ls *
>    användare  user
>
> I have LANG and CYGWIN set, but not having them set doesn't change the
> outcome.

Try "noglob" if your shell is not Cygwin-aware.

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