RE: Autocompletion and Cyrillic

[Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a question about auto completion here. I searched all over the
net
> for an answer but was not able to find anything useful.
> 
> I have a lot of mp3's with Cyrillic characters in file names.
> If i just do `ls' on them everything works fine, but if i do
> mpg123 <tab> i see something like this:
> 
> \M-b\M-E\M-K\M-H\M-A\M-N\ -\ \M-n\M-A\ \M-K\M-R\M-A\M-@\ \(1998\)/
> 
> Is there any way to make it read the 8bit Cyrillic characters in a
correct
> way ?
> 

Set your locale to correct value. Because you do not say what system you
are on it is hard to tell which is the correct value.

-andrej

> Also i am also wondering if i can hide the \ escape characters when i
am
> doing completion on the file names with spaces.
> 


You can't currently (easily). It is theoretically possible to generate
dequoted strings as descriptions.

-andrej