ls is broken for non-C locales due to libxo

Alexander Kabaev kabaev at gmail.com
Wed Jun 17 02:36:10 UTC 2015


On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 05:18:35 +0300
Andrey Chernov <ache at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Recent -current, LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R locale. ls -t eats whole date
> column, just ls eats whole filenames with printable national
> characters inside. Long live libxo.
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Ouch, it turns out I got switched to UTF8 locale because someone
silently changed the 'russian' login class. Way to go, people, way to
go.

I confirm that ls is indeed broken in KOI8-R locale. I should have
noticed that before, has I now been sabotaged by unintentional locale
switcharoo.

-- 
Alexander Kabaev
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