Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 20:25:07 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, kaleb@x.org Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Message-ID: <dOpFKWmyH5@ache.dialup.demos.ru> In-Reply-To: <199510151625.RAA21043@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch at Sun, 15 Oct 1995 17:25:56 %2B0100 (MET) References: <199510151625.RAA21043@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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In message <199510151625.RAA21043@uriah.heep.sax.de> J Wunsch writes: >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.) I have nothing against reverting this variable to DISABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE f.e. If you remember I plan to make startup locale as default for all program, but some peoples disagree, so I introduce ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3 : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849
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