On 17/07/07, Gordon Messmer <yinyang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > Christian Menzel wrote: >> The easier way would be setting LC_TIME to "en_US:en", so other apps >> show the time as well in your preferred format. > > This doesn't work so hot if you have UTF-8 encoded file names. I get ?? > for those characters. If I set LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" in addition the > characters are displayed correctly. For which characters? The date output should be all ASCII characters, so it should be valid UTF-8 encoded data.
N.B. "UTF-8 encoded _file names_" (my emphasis). -- imalone