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According to Andy Koppe on 9/2/2009 12:29 AM:
> A rather important exception is 'ls', which seems to have its own
> hardcoded limitation to 7 bits for the C locale: anything non-ASCII is
> shown as '? there'.

That's only because the current build of cygwin ls pre-dates a lot of the
locale support.  I'm hoping that when I get time to build coreutils 7.5,
that ls will start printing characters marked printable in the current locale.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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