Odd chrs in filenames

[Colin Law]

On 8 January 2011 23:51, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> I have hundreds of classical music files with what seems to be foreign
> chrs in the file name. It is not possible to copy these to a backup -
> it says 'file does not exist' but gives the name with some 'black
> diamond' chrs in the name. I'm assuming these diamonds are the chrs it
> does not know what to do with. I have to skip the file to continue.
> There may be a thousand+ of these chrs - too many to do by hand. I
> tried skipping manually, and it became clear this would take a VERY
> long time, and I would still not get a copy.

What format is the disk your are trying to backup to?  Is FAT for
example able to store utf8 names?

A better solution may be to use tar and compress them into a single
backup file.  You can do this very easily from the GUI by selecting
the files or folders, right click and select Compress.  That will then
allow you to specify a filename and destination for the backup.
Alternatively it can be done from the command line.

Colin