Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:42:25PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Just a thought: > > $ touch äöüß.éèâ > > $ ls -lh äöüß.éèâ > -rw-r--r-- 1 jrschulz jrschulz 0 2007-03-26 18:40 äöüß.éèâ > > $ ls -1 > filelist > > $ file filelist > filelist: UTF-8 Unicode text, with escape sequences Interesting

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-26 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Jochen Schulz wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi: >> >> Moreover, the original question still remains. Given a bunch of files, >> how do I determine their current encoding? > > Just a thought: > > $ touch äöüß.éèâ > > $ ls -lh äöüß.éèâ > -rw-r--r-- 1 jrschulz jrschulz 0 2007-03-26 18:40 äöüß.éèâ >

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi: > > Moreover, the original question still remains. Given a bunch of files, how > do I determine their current encoding? Just a thought: $ touch äöüß.éèâ $ ls -lh äöüß.éèâ -rw-r--r-- 1 jrschulz jrschulz 0 2007-03-26 18:40 äöüß.éèâ $ ls -1 > filelist $ file filelist filel

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-26 Thread H.S.
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool This tool seems to work either on the whole /home/user directory or on the whole system. I do not want that. I just want to convert the encoding of filenames that belong to a single directory. I do not w

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-26 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kevin Mark wrote: > maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool This tool seems to work either on the whole /home/user directory or on the whole system. I do not want that. I just want to convert the encoding of filenames that belong to a single directory. I do not want to migrate the whole system

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-26 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 11:30 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Kevin Mark wrote: >> >> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> >> > maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool >> >> I managed to install this package. But how exactly do I use this p

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 11:30 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool > > I managed to install this package. But how exactly do I use this package? > There is no binary, no

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-26 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kevin Mark wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool I managed to install this package. But how exactly do I use this package? There is no binary, no manpages whatsoever. The /usr/share/doc/utf8-migration-tool/README is cryptic enoug

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 23:22 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Kevin Mark wrote: >> >> >> > maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool >> >> Which package contains this command? >> >> $apt-file search migration-tool >> gdesklets: usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-migration-

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 11:22:39PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool > > Which package contains this command? > > $apt-file search migration-tool > gdesklets: usr/lib/gdesklet

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 23:22 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool > > Which package contains this command? > > $apt-file search migration-tool > gdesklets: usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-migration-tool > gdesklets: usr/share/gdes

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kevin Mark wrote: > maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool Which package contains this command? $apt-file search migration-tool gdesklets: usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-migration-tool gdesklets: usr/share/gdesklets/migration-tool raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:47:36PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > 1. Given a bunch of files, how can I find out the encoding of their > filenames? > 2. Which encoding is the best, more portable, should be preferred...? > > Why I need this? > I

find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
1. Given a bunch of files, how can I find out the encoding of their filenames? 2. Which encoding is the best, more portable, should be preferred...? Why I need this? I am trying to burn couple of files on Debian Etch using k3b (0.12.17). These files were originally located on another machine runni