Force Unicode support in Terminl directory listings

Oct 16, '02 10:00:54AM

Contributed by: gunnm27

OSX's Unicode support allows for various languages to be used in the system. The Finder is able to display international languages with no problems. However, viewing files with non-English filenames in the Terminal results in a bunch of ?'s as file names instead of the actual filename.

The fix is to run the ls -v instead of just ls command to "force unedited printing of non-graphic characters." Check the man page for ls for more information.

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