Thomas Wolff writes: > Like for grep which now barfs out when a character isn’t recognized in > the current encoding (and grep doesn’t even provide an environment > variable to override this mis-feature), these assumedly-modern > upstream changes are a nuisance.
You are barking up the wrng tree, please take that upstream. > For ls at least, it can be fixed with the environment variable > QUOTING_STYLE but that isn’t even mentioned in the manual page!%§↯ > – Poor old Unix tradition fades away. > > What about adding > export QUOTING_STYLE=literal > to /etc/profile as a fix? No, but you're free to do whatever you wish in /etc/profile.d (or lobby the coreutils maintiner to provide it with the package, although I'd suggest that it shouldn't get installed by default). Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Terratec KOMPLEXER: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KomplexerWaves -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
