Hi there!
I have a problem with umlauts in file names. They are working fine when I
create a file, but I have lots of files I moved from my former system that
show umlauts just as a question mark. I think I transferred them via NFS.
I have lang=de_de.u...@euro set now, before it was unset. Those umlaut files
refuse to play in applications like amarok2. I can rename them with mv on
the command line, making use of tab completion, but it's annoying.
So, does anyone have a trick to automate this?
I tried using tr. Using od -t x1 I see that what has to be 'ü' comes out as
0374 (octal). But "echo ü | od -t o1" gives 0303 0274 which tells me that in
unicode the umlauts are coded as two bytes. But I think I cannot use tr to
replace one character by a sequence of two characters.
And with sed, I don't know how to express the source string, it does not
seem to be capable of octal notation.
The only way I see is to use tr to replace the original ü with some special
character like €, and then use sed to replace € by ü. And repeat this for
[äöüÄÖÜß] and all the accented characters which I do not know how to type
here with nodeadkeys option set in xorg.conf (I'd be interested in how to do
this, too).
Do you have simpler ideas?
Wonko
