Re: arabic windows filename

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Mohamed Aser <mohasr at link dot net> wrote:
> بس�? ا�?�?�? ا�?رح�?�? ا�?رح�S�?
> أردت أ�? أعر�? ع�?ا اذا �fا�? �?�?ا�?�f طر�S�,ة
> ت�?�f�?�?ا �?�? �,راءة أس�?اء ا�?�?�?�?ات ا�?عرب�Sة
> ا�?�?�^ج�^د�? ع�?�? ا�,سا�? ا�?�^�S�?د�^ز
> �?�?�S تظ�?ر �?�S ع�?�? ش�f�? ع�?ا�?ات است�?�?ا�?

You need to be using mlterm (in order to see the Arabic characters
correctly, shapped and bidi'fied).  I also do 'ls -N' (otherwise a
simple 'ls' shows question marks as you note).

BTW: my ls is part of "GNU fileutils 3.12"

Hope that helps; salam.

 - Nadim


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