Re: "Strange" characters in file names

Thank you for your explanations, dxc and Ryan, that's very illuminating.

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Instead of two question marks, ls now displays two different box drawing characters.

> Perhaps your terminal or shell doesn't understand UTF-8? Perhaps you can educate it? I know on Mac OS X, for example, the terminal uses UTF-8 by default, but can be configured to use any character encoding you prefer.

I use Putty on Windows. I can indeed set it to UTF-8, then the 'ä' becomes a Sigma, because I'm using a OEM/DOS font with Putty (to get proper box drawing characters for working with mc). If I change Putty to use a "Western" font, then the umlaut displays perfectly, but I lose the box drawing characters.

So I'll go back to the nice bit-mapped Terminal font, but I know now how it all works out.

Thanks again!
Hans

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Received on Mon Mar 26 23:35:09 2007