A bug -maybe or just some odd feature

[DR. Lee - NS1]

Dear Sir,

With the popularity of MS, I have to upload MS file to the Linux
sometime. For a filename with Chinese character I found the odd behavior
and maybe you can throw some light into what could be the reason.

1) The ls -l command shown something like this:

-rw-rw----  1 penit_yuzhu penit 23552 Apr 30 15:20 Date????.doc
-rw-r--r--  1 penit_yuzhu root    202 May  2 10:59 Test&ZeVnHw-.doc
  

2) If I use ls -l | more; it will show the Chinese character correctly

3) If I save ls -d > t and then use vi t to open it, it will also show
the Chinese character correctly.

4) So it appears that the ls command has some kind of weakness that did
not handle the display of foreign character correctly.

5) The LANG=en and if I change LANG=zh_CH.GB2312, it does not make any
difference.

6) Hexdump would give the following:

00000000  44 61 74 65 c8 d5 c6 da  2e 64 6f 63 0a 54 65 73
|Date.....doc.Tes|
00000010  74 26 5a 65 56 6e 48 77  2d 2e 64 6f 63 0a
|t&ZeVnHw-.doc.|

Both files are in format of:

    CCCCxx.doc  where C is ASCHII char and xx is two Chinese character
menaing date.
    The Datexx.doc is upload using SSH and the Testxx.doc is rename
under MS Outlook.

 

Rgds,
Kfl.

PS. Can you point me to a user group of Linux.

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