Oskar Liljeblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Not long ago I reported a wishlist-bug for ls (#56569) that > there was no support for custom character sets. > The problem is that ls prints filenames with national characters > like 'ÃÃÃ' as '???'. I would like to do something like this: > > ls --character-set=ISO_8859-1 > > I was asked what these custom character sets do that locales > don't.
You know about ls -N / ls --literal, do you? I don't know whether ls uses the locale to determine which characters are "nongraphic". It looks as though perhaps it doesn't ... > So now I wonder: is there any locale that acts like the > default locale, but with ISO-8859-1 character set support? > Can I make one myself? Or is there another solution for the > problem described above? I don't want to use a national > locale, simply because I don't want to use special collation > order, date format and stuff like that. I've seen stuff like the following suggested: export LANG=en.ISO_8859-1 (Choose English with iso-8859-1.) export LC_CTYPE=de_DE (Set just the ctype stuff to German, leaving the other locale aspects as default.) Edmund
