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Date:      Sun, 15 Oct 1995 17:25:56 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        ache@astral.msk.su (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=)
Cc:        hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, kaleb@x.org
Subject:   Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP
Message-ID:  <199510151625.RAA21043@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <EaZoIWmWO1@ache.dialup.demos.ru> from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Oct 15, 95 06:45:39 pm

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As =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= wrote:
> 
> >If I create a file that has extended ASCII (ISO8859-1) characters in the
> >name, ls always substitues a '?' for the non-ASCII characters. Note
> >that ls on, e.g. SVR4, does not do this
> 
> Did you setenv ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE before calling ls?
> See environ(7) (-current).

IMHO, the base utilities that use <ctype.h> should properly initialize
the locale instead of relying on that hack.  (The hack is useful to
force programs that don't like to handle locale's, but base utilities
of the system are expected to do it right theirselves.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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