Re: Accented chars in filenames issue
Raffaele Morelli <raffaele.morelli@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
>
> 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?...)
Just don't introduce them in the first place. Why would you have to
remove some files?
> BTW replacing accented chars using some one-line program could do you
> more harm than ever
Does it matter how many lines such a program has?
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