From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTF7g-00071V-Vp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:11:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F59DE029B; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kcout01.prserv.net (kcout01.prserv.net [12.154.55.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7197DE029B for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from opal.binro.org (adsl-dynamic-58-136-70-80.csloxinfo.net[58.136.70.80]) by prserv.net (kcout01) with ESMTP id <200907211311092010026edqe> (Authid: gbinet.atwoodr); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:11:10 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [58.136.70.80] Received: from opal.binro.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by opal.binro.org (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n6LDB37K011302 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:11:03 +0700 Received: (from robin@localhost) by opal.binro.org (8.14.3/8.14.2/Submit) id n6LDB3Y2011301 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:11:03 +0700 From: Robin Atwood To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Icelandic issues Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:11:02 +0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.28-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <200907211909.59098.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> <200907211452.34872.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <200907211452.34872.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Face: .c^^1Tm5bSr;@/t2T;-0HM`{~wj)F]2C]Zr#!Ig5fi&$LV1E^;5jL{]08F@tj{f3,U( =?utf-8?q?I=5B9=0A=09=3B7R4jB8A7=7Cmw7=7BK=5COYFzCL=5Fe/tAb?=)0_@07[e.}H`OE*na@ =?utf-8?q?7m=3DOp1=2Es0v3=5F3*=7C=3F=23l=7CXD=7Dn*=0A=09ARBV?=@IdaVd!V&bo;Z/TEb}oJi_(}3VOa^tj;$zlk96>K*hb> =?utf-8?q?PYbe6J=60=277qh=60=3Fm!!/k=5Dezl=0A=09=5FVIifMR=234kg*?="'n/S&^4@4: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907212011.03239.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> X-Archives-Salt: cd3a8486-efea-494f-a702-1a90436ff93b X-Archives-Hash: 6df44f4ba77b7fb1a12b62bd1024fca7 On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > Robin Atwood writes: > > No I did not have my money in a dodgy bank but I can no longer play Sig= ur > > Ros albums. When the CD is ripped onto the HD the file names contain > > accented characters and Amarok 2 says the directory/file does not exist. > > Formerly this was possible, so I am guessing converting to KDE4 may have > > been the culprit. My locale is set up thus: > > > > $ locale > > LANG=3Den_GB.utf8 > > LC_CTYPE=3D"en_GB.utf8" > > etc... > > > > Dolphin shows file names like: Sigur Ros - 07 - Vi=EF=BF=BDrar Vel Til > > Loft=EF=BF=BDr=EF=BF=BDsa.mp3 When I use a browser I can see the specia= l characters and > > can copy them to this mail: =C3=81g=C3=A6tis byrjun. I added "is" and s= ome other > > things to LINGUAS and re-installed kde-l10n but no accents. What is the > > trick with this? > > I had a similar problem lately, after I switched to UTF8. Dolphin and some > other applications were unable to deal with these files. i was advised he= re > to emerge convmv and use this utility to convert the filenames to UTF8. > Maybe something like 'convmv -f latin1 -t utf-8 Sigur\ Ros\ -\ 07' > works for you, too. In order to actually do the conversion, add the > --notest option. convmv also supports recursive conversion of whole > directory trees. Thanks for the tip! That was not the solution I was looking for but it did = the=20 trick. Fortunately I have only one directory affected; I guess it was creat= ed=20 before I changed to utf-8. Cheers =2DRobin =2D-=20 =2D--------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling =2D---------------------------------------------------------------------