If somebody has the same troubles than me, he can fix everything by installing the "convmv" package and run the following command: convmv -r --notest -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8 -i $HOME
That did the trick for me. On Thursday 22 March 2007 20:58, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On 3/22/07, Patrick Valsecchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: utf8-migration-tool > > Version: 0.5.2 > > Severity: important > > > > I have directories whose name contains accents. Those directories > > contains files whose name have accents as well. > > > > In this case, utf8migrationtool does not rename the directory first, but > > tries to rename the whole path directly. I then get errors like: > > > > Cannot rename '/home/patrick/Cass?/M?chant' to > > '/home/patrick/Cassé/Méchant': [Errno 2] No such file or directory > > > > -- System Information: > > Debian Release: 4.0 > > APT prefers unstable > > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (300, 'experimental') > > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-amd64 > > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > The above locale suggests that you were migrating from C or en_US, > which would imply ASCII as the encoding and thus undefined 8th bit > characters. The renaming string example you showed above supports this > assumption, since the accents are replaced with question marks. Given > this, I would not be surprised if that's why it failed.

