On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 04:26:02PM +0100, Alex Dănilă wrote: > Package: bash > Version: 3.2-4 > Severity: normal > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > The console programs (that is: Konsole, gnome-terminal, xterm, tty1) cannot > directly work with file names that start with non-utf8 > characters. They can list such a character with "?" but I don't know any way > of actually writing that name such that I can directly > work with it. > Please see the attached archive. Extract the contents and try "mv", "rm" or > any other operation on the extracted directory (that name is from Cyrillic, > I think the original encoding is windows 1251).
I don't think that this is bash's job to fix the problem. Maybe you should just convert the files to unicode? I recall that there was a package to do that. See also: fuse-convmvfs - mirrors a whole filesystem tree from one charset to another Last time I encountered such an issue I converted file names using a simple for loop with iconv. -- Tzafrir
