Hello,
I'm using Cygwin under a german Windows XP.
When listening files or directories which contains umlauts - like ä, ö, ü,
Ä, Ö, Ü or ß - th ls command only prints a '?' in place where the umlauts
should be.
While investigating the newsgroups and FAQs I found that this problem is
often mentioned but never solved.
I tried the proposed settings in the .inputrc (set convert-meta off; set
input-meta on; set output-meta on) as well as different codepages (850 (standard
cp), 1250, 1252, 437).
Nothing worked.
Interestingly the output is correct when piped through another command like
cat or less. And the bash shell gives the right output too when using the
buildin command echo (see example).
How can I ls configure print the right chars? Or is there a bug within it?
Here are my testing examples:
C:\TEMP\foo>chcp
Aktive Codepage: 850.
C:\TEMP\foo>dir
Verzeichnis von C:\TEMP\foo
12.04.2002 12:29 <DIR> .
12.04.2002 12:29 <DIR> ..
12.04.2002 12:29 0 bar_ä_ö_ü
12.04.2002 12:29 0 bar_ae_oe_ue
2 Datei(en) 0 Bytes
C:\TEMP\foo>bash
bash-2.05a$ echo *
bar_ae_oe_ue bar_ä_ö_ü
bash-2.05a$ /bin/ls -C
bar_ae_oe_ue bar_?_?_?
bash-2.05a$ /bin/ls -C | cat
bar_ae_oe_ue bar_ä_ö_ü
bash-2.05a$ exit
exit
bash-2.05a$ /bin/ls -C | less -FX
bar_ae_oe_ue bar_<E4>_<F6>_<FC>
bash-2.05a$ /bin/ls -C | less -FXr
bar_ae_oe_ue bar_ä_ö_ü
Many thanks for your help
Markus Brandt
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