I'm glad you got what you needed. I suspect the difference between the PCs must have been in the "code page" settings, but the handling of non-ASCII characters in Windows is a mystery to me, and doesn't even seem to be consistent between, for example, the GUI and the CLI, to say nothing of applications. So, I prefer not to have any, and the only reason I had them at all was that I lazily allowed the ripping software to construct them from the tags, which I lazily downloaded from freedb. I know this is a little ethnocentric (the A in ASCII stands for American, I believe), but I'm passing the buck: it's Windows that is broken, not me.
Anyway, this has been fun. I've learned some things about how to write this robustly as production code (thanks, radish) if I were ever going to do such a thing. Of course, all I really meant was to share my discovery that renaming a lot of files needn't be as daunting as it had seemed both to you and to me. In fact, what I originally did was write a program just to find them all and print them out, so I could rename them by hand. In the middle of that I got bored enough to realize I didn't care what they were named and to look up how to script the renaming. -- tom permutt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22689 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
