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From: KH <gentoo-user@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] help renaming files
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:33:01
Message-Id: 4BBCB3A1.1070400@konstantinhansen.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] help renaming files by luis jure
1 Am 07.04.2010 18:21, schrieb luis jure:
2 >
3 > hello list.
4 >
5 > i have a bunch of files with accented characters in their names, both
6 > upper- and lower case. i want to rename them using the non-accented
7 > equivalent. i thought that would be easy to do using something like tr.
8 > big mistake. confronted with accented characters, tr outputs garbage.
9 >
10 > searching the web, i found this: "Although the tr command respects C
11 > locale environment variables, don't expect it to do anything sensible
12 > with UTF-8 documents, such as being able to replace lower-case accented
13 > characters with appropriate upper-case characters. The tr command works
14 > best with ASCII and the other standard C locales."
15 >
16 > i'm using es_UY.UTF8 and i can't make tr do anything useful.
17 >
18 > any ideas?
19 >
20 > best,
21 >
22 > lj
23 >
24
25
26 Hi,
27 I am really not in this but maybe something like this can help you:
28
29 http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Create_an_Audio_CD#Clean_up_the_file_names
30
31 Regards
32 kh