On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Johan De Meersman <vegiv...@tuxera.be> wrote: > On *nix, look for a utility called convmv. > > I've got a hunch that your original file comes from a windows host, and the > filenames may have been copied from a word document or something similar. > Microsoft knows best, and thus tends to convert regular dashes into some > weird, slightly elongated version. If you copy that to a filename, and then > move that file to a *nix host, you get strange stuff. It's all for your own > good, apparently.
That is exactly the phenomenon I was referring to.and I run into it again and again. Here is a copy of the table explaining the details of those characters. It should inspire some ideas on how to address these in a manner appropriate to your environment. glyph Unicode HTML HTML/XML TeX Windows Char Codes figure dash - U+2012 (8210) none ‒ or ‒ none en dash - U+2013 (8211) – – or – -- ALT + 0150 em dash -- U+2014 (8212) — — or — --- ALT + 0151 horizontal bar -- U+2015 (8213) none ― or ― none swung dash ~ U+2053 (8275) none ⁓ or ⁓ none -- - michael dykman - mdyk...@gmail.com May the Source be with you. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
