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Subject: FreeBSD + Unicode filenames
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Paul Macdonald writes:

>  Can someone please point me in the right direction regarding
>  handling unicode characters in filenames on freeBSD.

	Is the question "Does it understand them?" or "How does it
display them?"
	Because on a -CURRENT system with:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=C

	"ls -al" produuces this:

-rw-r--r--   1 huff  huff   1204 Jun 19 17:16 <C9>tincelle.xhtml


	at the correct point in the sort order.


						Robert Huff