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Re: Non-ASCII characters in file names
Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Larres <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Jan> * Colin Paul Adams (colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> >> So I went back to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, unzipped the distribution
> >> again, and re-named the file, thanks to your help.
> >>
> >> ls now shows the correct file name. Emacs shows
> >> xgespräch.xml. And the test works.
>
> Jan> If you have more files with the wrong encoding, you can
> Jan> rename them all at once with convmv:
> Jan> http://freshmeat.net/projects/convmv/
>
> I don't know that I do, but this sounds like a useful utility to have.
If you want to find out, have a look at the "Bad names" functionality
in FSlint which is in fedora extras and debian, or otherwise:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/
cheers,
Pádraig.
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