Autocompletion and Cyrillic

Autocompletion and Cyrillic

[Igor Pruchanskiy]

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 ?

Also i am also wondering if i can hide the \ escape characters when i am
doing completion on the file names with spaces.

igor

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Uptime : 48 days, 21:23

RE: Autocompletion and Cyrillic

[Borsenkow Andrej]

> 
> 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.

-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.

-andrej

Re: Autocompletion and Cyrillic

[Igor Pruchanskiy]

> > 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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Uptime : 48 days, 21:48

RE: Autocompletion and Cyrillic

[Sven Wischnowsky]

Borsenkow Andrej wrote:

> ...
> 
> > 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.

Try `setopt printeightbit'.


Bye
  Sven

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Sven Wischnowsky                          wischnow@berkom.de

Re: Autocompletion and Cyrillic

[Igor Pruchanskiy]

> > You can't currently (easily). It is theoretically possible to generate
> > dequoted strings as descriptions.
> 
> Try `setopt printeightbit'.

unfortunately it did not change anything

igor

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Uptime : 53 days, 13:42

RE: Autocompletion and Cyrillic

[Borsenkow Andrej]

> > > You can't currently (easily). It is theoretically possible to
generate
> > > dequoted strings as descriptions.
> >
> > Try `setopt printeightbit'.
> 
> unfortunately it did not change anything
> 

Erm ... Sven meant "to turn on 8 bit display" not "to strip off
backslashes from names" I guess

-andrej