$ touch ρ $ echo 1 > ρ $ ls ? ρ $ ls | hexdump -C 00000000 cf 0a cf 81 0a dash "cut" the "0x81" from the "0xcf81" representation of the Greek character rho, and so it created another file named "0xcf". This only happens for a few utf-8 characters, not for all of them. Relevant bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532302 Please CC me if possible, I'm not on the list. Kind regards, Alkis Georgopoulos -- 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