Ian Malone wrote:
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).
OK, then, why would setting LC_TIME="en_US:en" affect the display of
your filenames?