[bug #16520] find is not finding certain strangely named files

[Andreas Metzler]

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #16520 (project findutils):

James Youngman wrote:
> I would guess that the byte sequence in the filename does not
> correspond with a valid sequence of bytes in the character 
> encoding systenm you have configured for your environment

I am pretty sure that was the cause, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/372499 which contains a example filetree.

> If so, the likely reason is that fnmatch() is failing to decode
> the (invalid) byte sequence according to the character encoding
> that has been specified.

It would be nice if <invalid seqquence>.jpg matched the pattern *.jpg. bash
and even dash seem to manage this:

UTF-8 locale set in test:
$ find -name '*gamix*mp3'
$ LC_ALL=C find -name '*gamix*mp3'
./dance/m?gamix.mp3
./dance/m?gamix.mp3
$ ls -d dance/*gamix*mp3
dance/m?gamix.mp3  dance/m?gamix.mp3

cu andreas


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