Re: [bug #67135] find -ls output is ASCII-only even in UTF-8 locales

raf <[email protected]> Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:13:18 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 07:29:37AM +0100, James Youngman <[email protected]> wrote:

> One of the important problems here is that file names are not in general
> encoded with the coding system indicated by the invoking user's environment
> variables.
> 
> In fact, two consecutive path elements (I.e. a directory name and its
> child's name) may use entirely incompatible character encoding systems.

I believe another concern is terminal escape injection which
necessitates some encoding.