The --show-control-chars flag worked fine and I've created a new alias for ls. The set solution doesn´t work, I've already tried it before.
Also tried to export this variables (have them on my ~/.profile): [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] export LANG LC_ALL LANGUAGE LC_TYPE LC_CTYPE OUTPUT_CHARSET [EMAIL PROTECTED] is defined in /usr/share/locale/locale.alias as: portuguese pt_PT.ISO-8859-1 pt_PT pt_PT.ISO-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] pt_PT.ISO-8859-15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] pt_PT.ISO-8859-15 And in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias I have: pt pt_PT.ISO8859-1 pt_PT pt_PT.ISO8859-1 pt_PT.88591 pt_PT.ISO8859-1 pt_PT.88591.en pt_PT.ISO8859-1 pt_PT.iso88591 pt_PT.ISO8859-1 pt_PT.ISO-8859-1 pt_PT.ISO8859-1 pt_PT.ISO_8859-1 pt_PT.ISO8859-1 pt_PT.iso885915 pt_PT.ISO8859-15 pt_PT.iso-885915 pt_PT.ISO8859-15 pt_PT.ISO-8859-15 pt_PT.ISO8859-15 pt_PT.ISO8859-15 pt_PT.ISO8859-15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] pt_PT.ISO8859-15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] pt_PT.ISO8859-15 pt_PT.utfO pt_PT.UTF-8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] pt_PT.UTF-8 On /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.dir I also have these 2 lines: iso8859-1/XLC_LOCALE: pt_PT.ISO8859-1 iso8859-15/XLC_LOCALE: pt_PT.ISO8859-15 Still those special characters get displayed as an octal value. This is na exaple of what I'm saying: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/My Documents# cd Programa\347\343o/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/My Documents/Programação# Thanks, --Tinoco -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/