Another NON trivial Cyrillic question

Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Wed Feb 11 14:29:00 GMT 2004


On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Alexander Shopov wrote:

> Just to clarify things a bit further:
>
> My problem is that rm -v cyr_file_name
> produces output:
>
> removing `\344\356\344\356\blah-blah-bla'
>
> instead of
>
> removing `cyr_file_name'
>
> I can ls and rm files with cyrillic names just fine.
>
> Best regards:
> al_shopov

Al,

Take a look at fileutils sources, especially quotearg_buffer_restyled()
in lib/quotearg.c (which is what eventually gets called by "rm -v").
After a cursory glance, it looks like it is locale-aware, so if you have
your locale settings straight, cyrillic should print out just fine.
	Igor
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