Subject: Re: bug#25495: WTF? Chmod (and presumably other coreutils) corrupt their own error messages with "smart" quotes...
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: Alain Knaff <[email-masked]>, Eric Blake <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:01:57 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Alain Knaff wrote:
> $ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 chmod 0 ffff
> chmod: cannot access ‘ffff’: No such file or directory

It looks like you're using an old version of coreutils. The current version 
outputs ASCII apostrophes there. This was a change committed on 2015-11-04 and 
released in coreutils 8.25; it makes it easier to cut and paste file names from 
diagnostics into shells.

Since the reported behavior is already fixed I'm taking the liberty of closing 
the bug report.