accented characters in gnome terminal

[Todd Slater]

On 1/7/06, Colin Brace <cb at lim.nl> wrote:
> The easiest way to clean up the files is to start by going to System -->
> Preferences--> Keyboard and adding the "US International Engish (with dead
> keys)" layout on the Layout tab.
>
> Next, add the Keyboard Indicator applet to the panel. This will enable you
> to switch between the dead keys on and off with the click of a mouse. (You
> can also leave it enabled permanently, but then you have to learn to hit the
> space bar if you want to type " ' ~ ` by themselves.
>
> Now, you can enter characters like ë, ñ, à and é by typing first the accent,
> then the letter.
>
> Cleaning up these kinds of long filenames (often with spaces) on the command
> line in a terminal window can tedious. Your best bet is to open the folder
> in a Nautilus window and fixing them there. (you'll also have to remove the
> "contains invalid character" string manually too.) It is indeed a lot of
> work if you have a lot of files.
>
> Of course, it would be nice if one didn't have to do this in the first
> place, but it happens because the cddb records upon which Grip et al  depend
> for artist, track, etc, info are alas nearly all encoded an MS character
> set, not in UTF8, which Gnome uses. :( However, that shouldn't prevent you
> from uploading UTF8 encoded track info to cddb with Grip. :)

Yay, after some fiddling I've got something I can live with. Thanks!

Todd