From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: 1.5.7: Problems with german umlauts in bash/rxvt command line
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pv12agy65nzo$.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1nhhu$rqr$1@sea.gmane.org>
* Alejandro Lopez-Valencia (2004-02-27 14:42 +0100)
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:35:23 +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote in
> <slzvxi996kss.dlg@thorstenkampe.de>:
>> although typing non-ascii characters in a
>>shell doesn't make sense. The only use is showing files with ls or d -
>>which is not a shell thing.
>
> Really?
>
> Say, you use cygwin to do text processing (I do, with the help of a
> bleeding edge groff), and in a whim you decide to write poetry to your
> girlfirend. Being a German speaker, you type, e.g.,
> "Lieder_für_meine_geliebte.tr".
>
> Did you or did you not need to type high-bit charecters in your shell?
> (Don't say you type them from within your editor, that's cheating).
I simply wouldn't generate filenames with non-ascii characters in a
shell. Same with spaces. Sooner or later some application will choke
on it and it'll take me hours to search and find the script or
application and fix it or make a workaround.
"Lieder_fuer_meine_Geliebte.tr" suffices and probably I'd call it
"poems_for_my_sweetheart.txt" because she comes from Poland and we
communicate in English... :-)
Thorsten
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-27 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-27 11:35 Olaf Föllinger
2004-02-27 13:14 ` Thorsten Kampe
2004-02-27 13:43 ` Olaf Föllinger
2004-02-27 14:42 ` Alejandro Lopez-Valencia
2004-02-27 15:09 ` Olaf Föllinger
2004-02-27 13:50 ` Alejandro Lopez-Valencia
2004-02-27 18:04 ` Thorsten Kampe [this message]
2004-02-27 13:45 Morche Matthias
2004-02-27 13:47 ` Olaf Föllinger
2004-02-27 17:32 Morche Matthias
2004-02-28 14:34 ` Olaf Foellinger
[not found] <16192.1078000438@www59.gmx.net>
2004-03-01 7:53 ` of
2004-03-01 12:32 Morche Matthias
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