I've changed the title because it was misleading (was: "The Greek letter "rho" is considered as two letters"). Repeating the problem, $ touch appétit $ ls app?tit ls: cannot access app?tit: No such file or directory $ ls app??tit appétit I.e. double-byte utf-8 characters need two "?" to be matched., triple-byte utf-8 characters (e.g. ἀ) need three "?" to be matched etc. -- 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