Accented characters

[simoncn]

(22-07-2012 09:13)rb73 Wrote:  Weird. The Linux box was already set to en_US.UTF-8

In that case, the file names and directory names must have been in a different character set such as Windows-1252 or MacRoman. This can happen when files are copied from another computer that uses a different character set.

This is where convmv is useful. If you know the original character set (or can work it out by a bit of detective work), you can use convmv to convert the file names and directory names from the original character set into UTF-8.

Quote:I went for a quick fix: downloaded "Diacritics Remover" (64-bit version here: http://tinyurl.com/cbkw7d2), set it to work, and I have hundreds of tracks back

That works as well!