On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:30:20PM +0200, Markus Brandt wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using Cygwin under a german Windows XP. > When listening files or directories which contains umlauts - like ä, ö, ü, > Ä, Ö, Ü or ß - th ls command only prints a '?' in place where the umlauts > should be.
That has nothing to do with Cygwin but is default behaviour of ls. When output is a tty, it doesn't print only printable ASCII chars (32 <= char <= 126). The option you're searching for is --show-control-chars. The man page is your friend! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/