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Re: Non us-ascii characters in ls



On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 07:18:16AM +0200, d1temp@lerum.mail.telia.com wrote:
> am currently helping a friend install 2.0 and we came across something
> I've noted before but bypassed (mainly work in english anyway), ls will
> list non-us-ascii characters as '?' instead of the proper character like
> å, ä, or ö (the characters specific to swedish).

You probably need to set up the locale information correctly, so that ls and
others know what characters can be displayed. Try setting the LC_CTYPE
environment variable to en_US.ISO-8859-1 .

HTH,
Ray
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