Peter Stephenson wrote:

> Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> > 
> > If you have a file `Maße', this appears in a completion list as
> > `Ma\M-_e' since metafied characters are treated specially.
> > 
> > I vaguely remember a discussion about this but I don't remember why it 
> > was decided to print them in this way (and I mean metafied characters
> > that are printable). Or was this just an oversight? Giving people
> > using such filenames what they deserve?
> 
> It was neither, really:  it's to do with locales.  If your locale says
> that scharfes S is a letter, then it appears as a letter in the
> listing; if not, not.  Arguably there could be some internal way of
> by-passing it.  I produced an FAQ entry on the subject (q.v.), but
> there was some suggestion at the time this wasn't really adequate.

Oops, RTM, sorry!

> (Surprise:  the AIX system here doesn't have locales installed.)

Neither has my DU4.0d...

> I've appended it as it now stands for convenience.  Maybe a simple
> option (EIGHT_BIT_CHARS or whatever) to cover standard cases like
> ISO-8859-* would be a better idea?

Yes, I think this would be helpful. Maybe I'll find some time
somewhere...


Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de