Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

[Raffaele Morelli <raffaele.morelli@gmail.com>]

2011/6/24 lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>

Raffaele Morelli <raffaele.morelli@gmail.com> writes:

> I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't create/write
> filenames containing accented chars, especially when copying music from my
> amarok collection (as you can guess a lor of brazilian, french and
> italian music has plenty of accented chars in filenames).

It's a very bad idea to use special characters (or spaces) in file
names. You can get it to work, and it may cause trouble when your locale
settings change or when you try to use the files on other
computers. You're already experiencing such trouble, so why make it
difficult?

well, I never use whitespaces and accented chars when working on linux, but... when your music collection it's about 32.027 tracks (I am a guitar player and music lover) it's difficult to get rid of accented chars :-) (should I drop baden powell? joao gilberto?...)

BTW replacing accented chars using some one-line program could do you more harm than ever

-r