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According to Vincent Lefevre on 1/15/2007 8:05 PM:
> Hi,
> 
> Under Mac OS X 10.4.8 with ls (GNU coreutils) 5.97 (installed via
> MacPorts), in a 80-column terminal (uxterm), I get:
> 
> $ ls
> É                               y123456789012345678901234567890
> x123456789012345678901234567890  z123456789012345678901234567890

This is yet another symptom of a much larger issue - namely, coreutils
does not handle multi-byte locales well.  The problem is that no one has
yet written a patch that makes it easy to handle multibyte locales without
penalizing single-byte locales.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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