On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Michael Dykman <mdyk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > I would suggest that the manner appropriate to most any environment is to just use plain ascii for your filenames :-) The "swung dash" you refer to is called a tilde, btw, and is mostly used in spanish. -- Bier met grenadyn Is als mosterd by den wyn Sy die't drinkt, is eene kwezel Hy die't drinkt, is ras een ezel
