X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=h5Z6vS+o9R77yu3KT3bzX5JclBubIjlZ8cn5uyycOdu d7/JZRZR6AZ0CgV5cGipbNftT2lyySyks/Y+1c9IPAmZ5OJwKxu3ymnN5faIkMJI n1zq8oH8q1t5JHV7vKbFjpmIXEIMBvx5LdU1v6siTCLpn5uPdMr4MF4hfPyKQbzw = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=urdzh6vifaUYPqvLeo/03esXeXg=; b=PwhjzZHfaqMxA6ma6 rgWI08ESiCL8rKp+fNET6Uj/NwXT5yeCasv6+qZ612lKIMC8ku6hnLbSwITXZben Avsnt94bA0EUUg18xjsTTmArluqR3NohZozzpL5RzamYJfeXMJeoLwoivQMzGanf wyLv5sjI9wrffq7hiBida4nXB0= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=quoting_style, QUOTING_STYLE, Poor, isn X-HELO: mail-in-06.arcor-online.net X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-07.arcor-online.net 3qhT8y5rPPzBs4D From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: strange behaviour of 'ls' References: <000001d1909e$da5b8b00$8f12a100$@talktalk.net> <72gcgbtd8mfco3n6neb2srnl9fv43s5et4 AT 4ax DOT com> <57077EB6 DOT 1090306 AT towo DOT net> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 20:52:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: <57077EB6.1090306@towo.net> (Thomas Wolff's message of "Fri, 8 Apr 2016 11:49:42 +0200") Message-ID: <871t6gx7ae.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.92 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id u38Iqj00019912 Thomas Wolff writes: > Like for grep which now barfs out when a character isn’t recognized in > the current encoding (and grep doesn’t even provide an environment > variable to override this mis-feature), these assumedly-modern > upstream changes are a nuisance. You are barking up the wrng tree, please take that upstream. > For ls at least, it can be fixed with the environment variable > QUOTING_STYLE but that isn’t even mentioned in the manual page!%§↯ > – Poor old Unix tradition fades away. > > What about adding > export QUOTING_STYLE=literal > to /etc/profile as a fix? No, but you're free to do whatever you wish in /etc/profile.d (or lobby the coreutils maintiner to provide it with the package, although I'd suggest that it shouldn't get installed by default). Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Terratec KOMPLEXER: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KomplexerWaves -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple