#514434 bash: Cannot directly work with names starting with non-unicode

Package:
bash
Source:
bash
Description:
GNU Bourne Again SHell
Submitter:
Alex Dănilă
Date:
2024-04-07 09:54:07 UTC
Severity:
normal
#514434#5
Date:
2009-02-07 15:26:02 UTC
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The console programs (that is: Konsole, gnome-terminal, xterm, tty1)
cannot directly work with file names that start with non-utf8
characters. They can list such a character with "?" but I don't know any
way of actually writing that name such that I can directly
work with it.
Please see the attached archive. Extract the contents and try "mv", "rm"
or any other operation on the extracted directory (that name is from
Cyrillic, I think the original encoding is windows 1251).

#514434#10
Date:
2015-10-28 04:59:36 UTC
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I don't think that this is bash's job to fix the problem. Maybe you
should just convert the files to unicode? I recall that there was a
package to do that. See also:

fuse-convmvfs - mirrors a whole filesystem tree from one charset to
another

Last time I encountered such an issue I converted file names using a
simple for loop with iconv.