Re: ls is broken, what's next cd?

[Harald Dunkel]

Hi Ben,

On 02/15/18 08:16, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> I'm not sure what's happening there, but it seems that your terminal
> doesn't know how to display the 2-byte representation "c3 a4"; neither
> gnome-terminal nor xterm have problems to display it here:
>
>    $ /bin/ls -log /tmp/Q*
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Feb 15 07:59 '/tmp/Qualitätssicherung final'

I am using xterm. The /tmp file system uses iso8859-? in this case.
The env says

        LANG=C
        LC_ALL=C

Doesn't this mean, that German Umlaute should be escaped, since
they are outside of scope of the C locale? Regardless whether
the file system uses iso8859 or UTF8?


Regards
Harri