2009/9/9 Kit Johnson: > I'm just getting started with cygwin and really enjoying the linux-like > functionality under windows. I have one major problem which is displaying > unicode filenames in bash. > > To be specific about my problem, I do not need to type unicode under bash, I > simply want to be able to list them (using ls) and archive them (using tar). > Currently all I get is this: "ls: cannot access ???????????????? : No such > file or directory."
You need to set up the LC_CTYPE environment variable. For example, if you're from the US, you'll probably want to set it to "en_US.UTF-8". This needs to be set before bash is invoked. There are at least two ways to do this: 1) Add a line like this to the cygwin.bat script in your Cygwin install directory: set LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 2) Set the variable in the Windows environment, either by going to Computer->Properties->Advanced->Environment Variables and addiing it there, or by using the 'setx' command line tool that comes with the Windows Resource Kit Tools (or preinstalled with some Windows variants). The second method is preferable if you want that variable to be set when starting Cygwin programs without going through cygwin.bat. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
