Re: Autocompletion and Cyrillic

[Igor Pruchanskiy <igor@linuxinside.com>]

> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I have a question about auto completion here. I searched all over the
> net
> > for an answer but was not able to find anything useful.
> > 
> > I have a lot of mp3's with Cyrillic characters in file names.
> > If i just do `ls' on them everything works fine, but if i do
> > mpg123 <tab> i see something like this:
> > 
> > \M-b\M-E\M-K\M-H\M-A\M-N\ -\ \M-n\M-A\ \M-K\M-R\M-A\M-@\ \(1998\)/
> > 
> > Is there any way to make it read the 8bit Cyrillic characters in a
> correct
> > way ?
> > 
> 
> Set your locale to correct value. Because you do not say what system you
> are on it is hard to tell which is the correct value.

Debian Woody and Sid (multiple boxes)

setting LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R helped. 

thank you

> 
> -andrej
> 
> > Also i am also wondering if i can hide the \ escape characters when i
> am
> > doing completion on the file names with spaces.
> > 
> 
> 
> You can't currently (easily). It is theoretically possible to generate
> dequoted strings as descriptions.

Ok. This is something i can live with.

> 
> -andrej

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