On Monday 13 March 2006 22:36, Joel Rees wrote: > On 2006.3.14, at 02:24 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > 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. > > Other than not using Joliet (the most correct answer IIUC) that's about > what you should do, But, just to check, you do make the conversion > _before_ the file gets copied, right? That's right. The command can be run recursively on a directory, and any files with characters that are not utf8 get renamed. After that, backup is easy. Anne
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