How to enter high-bit characters in UTF-8 with tcsh?

by Matt Wats » Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:23:25

How do I enter Espa?a in tcsh using UTF-8 encoding? I think this
should be the hex bytes:

45 73 70 61 c3 b1 61

But this also could be:

45 73 70 61 6e cc 83 61

I've tried entering ^V meta-L ^V meta-1, for c3 b1, but that doesn't
work. Is the locale support interpreting this somehow?

bash has the same issue for me, but gives me an (arg: 1) prompt when I
try to enter the high-bit char. zsh seems to work fine.

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1. High-bit characters in file names

When transferring files via NFS from my Mac, I sometimes end up with
high-bit characters (> 128) in the file name. This presents a big problem
to the shell, which doesn't allow the entry nor the display of high-bit
characters. Thus I can't enter the proper characters to delete the file,
and I can't rename it. Using "ls" will show a file name, but this file
name is false, in that it doesn't show the real characters. rm -r doesn't
work either, since it apparently tries to resolve the file name using
shell- type mechanisms, which also fail.

So, is there a way I can read the "true" name of the file directly from the
inode, or something like that? At least if I have the true file name, I
can write a perl script to delete it.

Any other ideas would be welcome.

-David.

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