Problem running 'find' command from inside a path with accents

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 03.10.2025 um 10:44 schrieb Antonio DiCesare via Cygwin:
> I have the following locales:
>
> LANG=it_IT.ISO-8859-3
> LC_CTYPE="it_IT"
> LC_NUMERIC="it_IT"
> LC_TIME="it_IT"
> LC_COLLATE="it_IT"
> LC_MONETARY="it_IT"
> LC_MESSAGES="it_IT"
> LC_ALL=it_IT
>
> Everything works fine, but one thing. If I am inside a path with an
> accented letter in it (say ~/aàa/bbb) and run the 'find' command I get
>
> "find: Failed to save initial working directory: No such file or directory"
>
> The "ls" command, for instance, works fine. Also the 'find' command works
> perfectly fine if I run it from ~ , but as soon as I cd to "~/aàa" it
> breaks.
>
> If I run
>
> LC_ALL=C find
>
> then I get a result, but accented letters are replaced by "??". So, if I
> have the file "càc" in the above directory, the command " LC_ALL=C find"
> shows
> .
> ./c??c
>
> Any suggestion greatly appreciated.
LC_ALL=C.utf8 find
works.
I think to remember that UTF-8 used to be the default locale for 
LC_ALL=C in cygwin, either I'm wrong or that changed.