Odd chrs in filenames <OT>

[Basil Chupin]

On 09/01/2011 18:13, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 17:46 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 09/01/2011 17:24, Ric Moore wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 11:24 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>> On 09/01/2011 10:51, rikona 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to semi-automatically change these chrs to their
>>>>> 'nearest good chr' so it would be approximately readable correctly in
>>>>> English, AND the comp would like the name? :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>     rikona
>>>> 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 you can sorta figure out the filename and wish to copy/move it to
>>> something more ascii, you could just use midnight commander (mc) for a
>>> text file handler. When I run into Windows file names full of spaces and
>>> prancing pink unicorns with spangles, I use mc to brute force them into
>>> submission. It's a manly tool, for us manly Linux-OS men and for the
>>> Linux Chics ladies, too! :) Ric
>> I prefer to use the compassionate, gentle persuasion, and a soft-voiced
>> approach to solving such a problem rather than the "brute force" (you
>> brute, you!) approach you are advocating O:-) .
>>
>> Anyway, watcha doing still messing around with Windows garbage?! Shut
>> the damn Windows and stop the bugs from getting in! (Eh, I like what I
>> just wrote! I think I'll use it as a sig line - unless you want to use
>> of course.)
>>
>> (Still having a hard time convincing people to switch from Windows, eh?
> They make me crazy. Absolutely bonkers. I cannot wean several important
> people in my life from Windows.

Henry Kissinger made this statement, "The absence of alternatives clears 
the mind marvellously."

Got the message? ;-) .


>   Plus, they use some sort of crazy
> Windows/Yahoo mailer that sticks their posts into a single-cell text box
> that you cannot middle or bottom post to, or copy from.

Well, this has nothing to do with Windows but with Yahoo because my wife 
uses Linux/Firefox and also patronises a Yahoo site and there is no way 
one can split a post into bits when replying to it. However, you CAN 
copy from it (at my polite and gentle request my wife just proved this 
:-) ).


>   I'm insane from
> it. Gill Bates hates me personally, I know it.<gibbers>  Ric

Send him the Jack Russell pup - without the newspaper :-) .

BC

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