Strange 'find' case?

Dan Thurman dant at cdkkt.com
Sat Nov 15 21:24:10 UTC 2008


Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Dan Thurman wrote:
>   
>> So, my question is, how do I get around this issue - to either write
>> a  script to convert these files to a `sane' encoded characters or
>> change  something like the Language environment that the OS can
>> handle any encoded file names?
>>     
>
> The default charset used for files is utf-8.  The convmv program can
> help you convert filenames from one encoding to another.
>
> If you have filenames that are using ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1), for
> example, you might be able to make find happy using something like
> this:
>
> LANG=en_US.iso88591 find ...
>
> But fixing the encodings of the filenames seems like a far better
> solution.
>
>   

SUPER!  Thanks for your reply - now that I have some work to do! ;)

Kind regards!
Dan




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