On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 08:58:49PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > On 18-09-2017, at 20h 47'28", Pol Hallen wrote about "languages" > > Hello all :-) > > > > studying russian language I've some files with cyrillic file name: using > > caja (mate file manager) I see correct file name, but using the shell I see: > > > > ?????????????????? - ?????????????? ????????????.txt > > > > How can I see the correct file names? > > > > thanks for help :) > > > > Pol > > > What terminal do you use. Use one that is unicode aware, like uxterm.
Some else's recent suggestion to try xfce4-terminal had me switch in the last 4 days from uxterm to xfce4-terminal: - can configure it visually to almost the same as "u/xterm -lc" - supports fixed fonts (of course) if fixed fonts are enabled for true type apps - it has fall-back to AA true type fonts for missing glyphs (bonus!) It's a comfortable terminal... > Also, what locales do you use? Something unicode aware would be > better... > > When you copy and paste those question marks (into a text editor) are > they really question marks or they change back into Cyrillic letters? > If yes, then your terminal doesn't have the Cyrillic letters set. > > Ionel >
