Re: Are completion and prompt expansion 8-bit clean?

[raul segura acevedo <raul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Alain Caron wrote:

> Being a francophone, I like using filenames with french characters.
> I usually have no problem with it except in two situations.

> The first one is with completion:

> touch élément1 élément2

> ls é<TAB>							  (expands into)
> ls élément<TAB>                 (lists \M-il\Miment1 \M-il\M-iment2)

use "nlsinfo" to see which "locales" are installed in your
machine, set CTYPE to an iso88591 one, for example

export LC_CTYPE=english.iso88591

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