Filename containing French characters ?

[Robert Bonomi]

> From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org  Sun May 22 23:56:05 2011
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 06:54:44 +0200
> From: Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet at esiee.fr>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Filename containing French characters ?
>
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> Le 22/05/2011 17:31, Mike Jeays a ecrit :
> > On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:00:48 +0200 Frank Bonnet<f.bonnet at esiee.fr>  
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> I'm going mad trying to Open a file which the filename contains one or 
> >> more French characters ( file not found ) Is there some magical 
> >> receipe to do so ? Or do I have to forget trying ???
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
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> > If the first few characters is not accented, type 'mv "', then the 
> > first few characters,  in a command line, and press 'tab' so the 
> > auto-completion works. Don't forget the closing quote. Then rename it 
> > to something else.
>
> Access right are OK ( 644 ) the completion does not work, the operating 
> system says file not found when I try to open it with any program.
>
> when I type the "ls -l" command the file is displayed with a "?" in place 
> of the French (accentuated ) character
>
> I tried UTF8 or iso8859-1 as MM-CHARSET and fr_FR.ISO8859-1 as LANG 
> global variables but it still don-t work
>
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