Spake Eben King on Monday, September 15, 2008 at 12:56PM -0400:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
>
>> Spake Eben King on Monday, September 15, 2008 at 11:22AM -0400:
>>> I picked LANG=C for my shell environment so files would sort according to
>>> ASCII order, caps then lowers. But, non-ASCII characters such as ø
>>> (o-slash) in "Bjørk" appear as ? (question mark). If I tab-complete a
>>> filename, it is correct on the command line, but I can't type them in
>>> bash/sh. I can make it look right in ls by choosing LANG=en_US, but then
>>> sorting is all messed up, with caps and lowers sorting together. Is
>>> there a middle ground where things look correct and sort correctly?
>>> Bonus if it can be made to look right in Samba too.
>>
>> If you *just* want to sort in ascii order, you can set LC_COLLATE=POSIX.
>> e.g. export LC_COLLATE=POSIX.
>
> That does make it sort correctly (so does LC_ALL=C, BTW). It doesn't
> make ø show up, even when I do this:
>
> eben@pc:~/mp3/b$ env -i LC_COLLATE=POSIX ls
> BT Bizet Boston
> BT_+_Paul_van_Dyk Bj?rk Bowers,_Brian
> ...
>
> I'm guessing LC_ALL overrides the other LC_* settings?
I'd be interested in how the filenames are encoded -- are they UTF-8,
Latin-1, or what?
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