On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 07:28:19PM -0600, AJ ONeal wrote:
> I'd like to know of a batch method of renaming files on the filesystem to
> utf8 and replacing any non-converting characters to '_'.

If it "barfs", you could rename it in your Python script.  When you call
encode, give it errors='replace'.  Then you can replace any u'\ufffd'
(REPLACEMENT CHARACTER) with an '_'.

Does that help?

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