Escape filenames the same way Bash does it

Question

When I use the \"tab\" key in bash (when you have started to type the filename and you want it to complete), bash escapes the filename correctly, a

Answer 1

ls  --quoting-style=escape /somedir

this will output the escaped filenames, and also work with unicode characters, printf method does not work with Chinese, it outputs something like $'\206\305...'