If current LOCALE not UTF-8, national encoding in "ps" output broken. For example, mplayer with cyrillic args (filename in KOI8-R) not present in "COMMAND" column. Bug in bin/ps/ps.c: # diff -u bin/ps/ps.c.orig bin/ps/ps.c --- bin/ps/ps.c.orig 2017-07-21 06:43:20.000000000 +0700 +++ bin/ps/ps.c 2018-07-01 22:05:52.817718000 +0700 @@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ fwidthmin = (xo_get_style(NULL) != XO_STYLE_TEXT || (STAILQ_NEXT(vent, next_ve) == NULL && (vent->var->flag & LJUST))) ? 0 : vent->var->width; - snprintf(fmtbuf, sizeof(fmtbuf), "{:%s/%%%s%d..%ds}", + snprintf(fmtbuf, sizeof(fmtbuf), "{:%s/%%%s%d..%dhs}", vent->var->field ?: vent->var->name, (vent->var->flag & LJUST) ? "-" : "", fwidthmin, fwidthmax); Function xo_emit requires an argument %s in UTF-8 only encoding. But acceptably replace %s with %hs, in which case pass argument in $LANG encoding.
Will be fixed in bug 241491 (as it was the first I noticed and opened review for). Thank you for the report! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 241491 ***