On Monday 13 March 2006 15:01, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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? > I didn't find any way to list the affected files, so I used convmv against the folders most likely to hold affected files. Backup completed and verified, so it had nothing to do with k3b or hardware problems - just character sets. FWIW, I told it to convert to utf8. Anne
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