-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to DR. Lee - NS1 on 5/1/2007 9:40 PM: > Dear Sir, > > With the popularity of MS, I have to upload MS file to the Linux > sometime. For a filename with Chinese character I found the odd behavior > and maybe you can throw some light into what could be the reason. > > 1) The ls -l command shown something like this: > > -rw-rw---- 1 penit_yuzhu penit 23552 Apr 30 15:20 Date????.doc > -rw-r--r-- 1 penit_yuzhu root 202 May 2 10:59 Test&ZeVnHw-.doc >
By default, ls will print ? in place of non-printable characters, according to your current locale's definition of printable characters. Either change your locale to something that prints those Chinese characters, or look into using the --show-control-chars and - --quoting-style options of ls to force these characters to print. > > 2) If I use ls -l | more; it will show the Chinese character correctly That is because more does not worry about what non-printing characters can do to a terminal, but just blindly prints them; fortunately, your terminal displays them sanely. > > 4) So it appears that the ls command has some kind of weakness that did > not handle the display of foreign character correctly. No, it is other programs that have a weakness in that they will blindly print non-printing characters to a terminal, even if doing so will corrupt the terminal display. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGOBDY84KuGfSFAYARAjdoAJ9nhortc90eg9SEPoB8MAvXyaZjbgCfcr4J kQvURn2KOX2X3EM1Ev7oxPQ= =HzyB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
