% uniquote -v t echo foo > \N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE} cat \N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE} % sh /tmp/t foo % ls a? | uniquote -v a\N{COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT} #### % perl -le 'print -e "\xE1" ? "Yes" : "No"' No % perl -MUnicode::Normalize -le 'print -e NFC("\xE1") ? "Yes" : "No"' Yes