Odd chrs in filenames

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:

>
> Has to do with the char set you are using on your computer. You are
> probably using UTF-8 but the chars you see as "diamond" will be displayed
> correctly if you switch over to Western (ISO 8859-1). (Or try the reverse to
> what I just stated.)
>
>
If they can off a Windows system, they are probably Windows-1252 character
encoding (MS BS). There is a package called 'convmv', that should handle the
conversion of filenames. iconv handles text conversion.

-- 
Hal
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