Subject: Re: bug#4157: 23.1.50; faulty character characterisation for ä

From: Peter Dyballa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 20:33:56 +0200

> Am 10.10.2019 um 13:20 schrieb Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>:
> 
> Like Andreas says, the dates are in Latin-9, but the file names are in
> UTF-8 (probably utf-8-hfs).

Alright, file names in Mac OS X were recorded in a special form of UTF-8, accented characters as two characters. GNU ls outputs the month name correctly, but not the file name, which is still held in UTF-8 and not converted to ISO Latin-9. So it's more of a GNU ls bug.

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