Re: Accented chars in filenames issue
On 26/06/11 09:17, William Hopkins wrote:
> On 06/25/11 at 04:33pm, Scott Ferguson wrote:
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> OK, so the files are being created, and your FS can handle the characters, but
> somehow the characters aren't being translated. So it's not an issue with your
> filesystem, it's an issue with the filesystem the original files are on. I
> assume that's NTFS? Can you try mounting it and moving a file with mv ?
Unfortunately that happened several years ago with some elses portable
drive - I only noticed the problem when moving the music collection from
ext3 to ext4 - the system kept coming up with "not found" messages when
attempting to move filenames which had ISOcharacter set accented
characters.
Fortunately I've managed to rename them using Picard and MusicBrainz -
there's far too many to do by hand.
This thread was created by someone else with a similar problem - so the
solution might be more use to them. I'm curious as to how it happened so
I can avoid it in the future though. Especially as I increasingly come
across people using the old non-UTF character sets for files.
What I should do is create some rules so that when I mount ntfs and fat
volumes in the future the problem is avoided... any suggestions'd be
appreciated.
Cheers
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