From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alkis Georgopoulos Subject: Some utf-8 characters are cut in the middle on redirections Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:05:42 +0300 Message-ID: <1281211542.6631.49.camel@alkis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:38246 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753735Ab0HGUFs (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2010 16:05:48 -0400 Received: by fxm14 with SMTP id 14so4421476fxm.19 for ; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:05:47 -0700 (PDT) Sender: dash-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: dash@vger.kernel.org To: dash@vger.kernel.org $ touch =CF=81 $ echo 1 > =CF=81 $ ls ? =CF=81 $ ls | hexdump -C 00000000 cf 0a cf 81 0a dash "cut" the "0x81" from the "0xcf81" representation of the Greek character rho, and so it created another file named "0xcf". This only happens for a few utf-8 characters, not for all of them. Relevant bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D532302 Please CC me if possible, I'm not on the list. Kind regards, Alkis Georgopoulos