fixing (invalid coding)

[rikona]

Hello Conny,

Friday, May 17, 2013, 1:32:22 PM, Conny wrote:

> 2013-05-17 22:19, rikona skrev:
>> I have been doing lots of file copies/restores in a new box. Turns out
>> many files have 'odd' characters in them that seem to be causing
>> problems in 12.04. Some software [like grsync] does not work properly
>> with these files. CLI with sudo seems to do well though - it seems to
>> be GUI pgms that have trouble. The offending files have '(invalid
>> coding)' tacked on the end of the name [in the GUI].
>>
>> The chrs seem to be in foreign file names, especially German.
>>
>> I have hundreds [+] of these in a wide variety of locations. It's not
>> possible to look through all the files, in thousands of dirs, to find
>> them. Is there a way to list ALL the files that have this problem
>> and/or fix it in the file name by, say, substituting a like-sounding
>> OK chr in the name?
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>>   rikona
>>
>>

> I had the same problem but in Swedish, I can't remember what program I
> used to fix it but take a look at this: 
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/convmv.1.html

An interesting program, but it looks like one has to know the single
'input' coding that needs to be fixed, and looks like it can't deal
with simultaneous multi-language files in the same dir.

It looks like it is not smart enough to be used - safely - on a huge
number of files with dozens of different languages/codings.

But thank you for the info!

What I was looking for was a pgm that could find all the badly-named
files + locations on the disk - that might be enough since they can be
corrected by hand if need be. The 'system' seems to know when they're
bad, so there might be a way to ID them. It's a 'needle in the
haystack' problem - find, say, 500, out of 500,000...

-- 

 rikona