locale settings and displaying file names in multiple languages

[Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)]

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On 03.03.2010 10:24, Dan Naumov wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have a 8.0/amd64 system serving a few Samba shares. Windows clients
> write files to some of these shares using multiple languages: english,
> finnish and russian. When accessed from any given Windows client, the
> file and directory names all look correct. However when accessing
> these same files locally, the file- and directory names that utilize
> russian and finnish languages are full of question marks, like this
> for russian:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 nobody  nobody    11M Feb 21  2008 ???????????? ??????????
> -rw-r--r--  1 nobody  nobody   9.2M Feb 21  2008 ??????????-??????????????????
> -rw-r--r--  1 nobody  nobody   6.3M Feb 21  2008 ?????????????????? ????...
> -rw-r--r--  1 nobody  nobody   7.6M Feb 21  2008
> ???????????????????????? ????????
> -rw-r--r--  1 nobody  nobody   7.1M Feb 21  2008 ?????????????? ????????
> -rw-r--r--  1 nobody  nobody   7.7M Feb 21  2008 ??????????????
> 
> and like this for finnish:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody  nobody       13 Mar  2 03:20 Turmion K??til??t
> - Hoitovirhe
> drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody  nobody        7 Mar  2 03:20 Turmion K??til??t
> - Niuva 20
> drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody  nobody       13 Mar  2 03:20 Turmion K??til??t
> - Pirun Nyrkki
> drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody  nobody       12 Mar  2 03:20 Turmion K??til??t
> - U.S.C.H.!
> 
> And operating on these files locally is tricky to say the least: for
> example I cannot do a: cd "???????????? ??????????" for obvious
> reasons, because there is no directory that REALLY has all those
> question marks. However, I am still able to browse and operate on
> these files using Midnight Commander, somehow it actually works. How
> do I need to set the locale settings on the FreeBSD machine so that
> all file names are displayed correctly when operated on locally?
> 
> 
> - Sincerely,
> Dan Naumov
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It's actually an illusion. It happens because ls quite rightly refuses
to spew characters the terminal capabilities doesn't state that can be
displayed, simply because they might send control characters to the
terminal that may or may not corrupt the display. If you use completion
(f.eks. tab), you'll see a ton of \#0x??? or whatnot being the actual
pathname. If you're really intent on displaying the directory, try "echo *"

//Svein

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