Subject: Re: bug#25495: WTF? Chmod (and presumably other coreutils) corrupt their own error messages with "smart" quotes...

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:01:57 -0800

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.