From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B98B1158042 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2024 23:52:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19348E0856; Sun, 3 Nov 2024 23:52:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A41FBE0826 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2024 23:52:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-158-182-12.range86-158.btcentralplus.com ([86.158.182.12] helo=[192.168.1.65]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1t7kOg-000000008qq-2vsk for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2024 23:52:42 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 23:52:47 +0000 Precedence: bulk List-Post: 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming files with those pesky picture type characters. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <32f571c7-de3f-53da-185a-9cdfa0797a93@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-GB From: Wol In-Reply-To: <32f571c7-de3f-53da-185a-9cdfa0797a93@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: ce2e9a52-0eca-4c5c-b482-5ed44f312618 X-Archives-Hash: ac608962b3018c79e0955d0ebebb565f On 29/10/2024 15:18, Dale wrote: > Some of the other characters I run into look like this. > > > ���� As I understand it, these are typically characters your display doesn't know how to display. Eg Unicode for which it doesn't have a glyph. Or (unlikely nowadays) 8-bit Latin characters when all you've got is 7-bit Ascii. Bear in mind as far as linux is concerned, a file name is a string of bytes ending in null, with a couple of forbidden characters eg "/". So if your shell or whatever doesn't know how to display the bytes, that's what it does. Cheers, Wol