Erm actually this problem happens with all utf8 characters, i.e. dash does not properly take utf8 characters into account when expanding "?". $ touch appétit $ ls app?tit ls: cannot access app?tit: No such file or directory $ ls app??tit appétit I'll send another mail about the greek rho problem which occurs only with redirections. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html