I have a number of files on my server that have international characters in their names. My backups are constantly failing, with errors like this: Incorrectly encoded string (Soy Loco por Ti, América) encountered. Possibly creating an invalid Joliet extension. Aborting. I could continue trying to find every instance of these characters, but it's very inefficient. It seems to me that I have only ever used the character sets utf8, 8859-1 and 8859-15, yet setting kde to use any of them results in titles with spaces instead of the international characters. I presume that only file labels are causing problem - there will be strings in text documents as well. I've installed convmv, which is supposed to deal with converting character sets, but it seems to me that the biggest problem is knowing which files need conversion. I don't particularly want it to go through the whole drive converting everything unnecessarily. Any ideas how I can ascertain which character sets were used in naming these files, and how to list all files using that encoding? Or any other way of tackling the problem? Anne
Attachment:
pgpASuAHRaIXz.pgp
Description: PGP signature
