On 29/10/2024 15:18, Dale wrote:
Some of the other characters I run into look like this.
����
As I understand it, these are typically characters your display doesn't
know how to display. Eg Unicode for which it doesn't have a glyph. Or
(unlikely nowadays) 8-bit Latin characters when all you've got is 7-bit
Ascii.
Bear in mind as far as linux is concerned, a file name is a string of
bytes ending in null, with a couple of forbidden characters eg "/". So
if your shell or whatever doesn't know how to display the bytes, that's
what it does.
Cheers,
Wol
