filenames with characters that have the high bit set

[Nellis, Kenneth]

> From: Nellis, Kenneth
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 09:00
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: filenames with characters that have the high bit set
> 
<snip>
> 
> $ touch foo$'\xc3\xa9'
> $ ls -l
> total 0
> -rw-r-----+ 1 knellis knellis 0 2010-03-16 08:55 fooé
> $ test -f foo$'\xc3\xa9'
> $ echo $?
> 0
> $
> 
> --Ken Nellis

The output, above, does not appear correct in my
Internet Explorer 7 rendering of the posting from the
archives, however the output appears correct in both the
Outlook e-mail posting I sent and that which I received.
IE7 is showing the output of the "ls -l" command 
incorrectly as foo<U+00C3> (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH 
TILDE), but Outlook shows it (correctly) as foo<U+00E9> 
(LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE). It would seem that 
character encoding is getting corrupted somewhere
between the Cygwin e-mail server and the archive
server.

--Ken Nellis