[Bug 223598] ls utf output

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223598

--- Comment #6 from bsd at haps.ca ---
Ah, this is all very interesting, the -w option seems to be exactly what is
needed.  It seems further that the LANG setting will cause a re-interpretation
of what is 'printable'.  However, maybe I'm just confused about this, but it
seems unlikely that 'ls' should try to determine what is 'printable' beyond
truly unprintable characters (control chars, etc).

In reality, support by a font would be more indicative of what is printable,
and ls would have no way of determining that.  The fact that -w shows printed
characters on my linux terminal, but not on my freebsd terminal, is due to the
font support.

It still seems to me 'bug'-ish that without any locale, printable but non-ascii
characters are converted to '?'.  It seems counter-intuitive that a character
belonging to a different alphabet would be considered 'non-printable'.  The
characters that come to mind as 'non-printable' are things like CR, LF, EOL.

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