On Jan 30, Oskar Liljeblad <osk@hem.passagen.se> wrote: >The problem is that ls prints filenames with national characters >like 'åäö' as '???'. I would like to do something like this: The problem is that you have not configured your locale settings. Try: export LC_CTYPE=swedish >From setlocale(3): LC_CTYPE for regular expression matching, character classi fication, conversion, case-sensitive comparison, and wide character functions. -- ciao, Marco