Re: UTF8 problems with "find -ls" ?

[James Youngman]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Halim Issa <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Running findutils 4.4.0 on a Slackware-based system, I'm having a few UTF-8
> related challenges with find together with filenames with international
> characters such as the Scandinavian æ ø and å.
> Same problem seems to exist in previous versions of findutils.
>
> lets say I do a #touch "file with ÆØÅ";touch "file with æøå";touch "file
> without any trouble" and then try to find these with find.
>
> What works fine:
> #find . -name "*file*" -print
> ./file without any trouble
> ./file with ÆØÅ
> ./file with æøå
>
> (so this works just fine!)
>
> What does NOT seem to work (or where I messed up):
> #find . -name "*file*" -ls
> 1384688    0 -rw-r--r--   1 yo       users           0 Dec 17 19:03 ./file\
> without\ any\ trouble
> 1384675    0 -rw-r--r--   1 yo       users           0 Dec 17 19:03 ./file\
> with\ \303\206\303\230\303\205
> 1384687    0 -rw-r--r--   1 yo       users           0 Dec 17 19:03 ./file\
> with\ \303\246\303\270\303\245
>
> What happened with unicode here?

The historic behaviour of -ls is to escape such characters.   See
"Unusual Characters in File Names" in the info documentation for find.

>
> Have I completely missed something, either at compile time or replacing -print
> with -ls supposed to work like this?
>
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated - thanks in advance!
>
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