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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Umlaut trouble in filenames
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:56:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906181356.06283.wonko@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090618132020.06324dc8@symbox>

Renat Golubchyk writes:

> schrieb Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>:
> > I have a problem with umlauts in file names. They are working fine
> > when I create a file, but I have lots of files I moved from my former
> > system that show umlauts just as a question mark. I think I
> > transferred them via NFS.
> >
> > I have LANG=de_DE.utf8@euro set now, before it was unset. Those
> > umlaut files refuse to play in applications like amarok2. I can
> > rename them with mv on the command line, making use of tab
> > completion, but it's annoying.
> >
> > So, does anyone have a trick to automate this?
>
> Use app-text/convmv.

Wow, this is not exactly what I was looking for, it is much better. THANKS!

	Wonko



  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-18 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-18 10:31 [gentoo-user] Umlaut trouble in filenames Alex Schuster
2009-06-18 11:20 ` Renat Golubchyk
2009-06-18 11:56   ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2009-06-18 14:19 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-06-19  9:16   ` Alex Schuster
2009-06-19 14:42     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-06-19 15:33       ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-06-20 19:30     ` Mick
2009-07-24 12:30 ` Alex Schuster

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