On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:24:54 Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:38:35AM Hadar wrote:
>
> > I'm encoding audio CDs into FLAC files using Sound Juicer.
> > The albums are automatically recognized and the songs names are downloaded.
> > When ripping Hebrew albums, the songs names are sometimes malformed
> > (a.k.agibberish - certainly not Hebrew characters).
>
> They are Hebrew characters, but not in a charcter set you expect them to
> be.
I prefer the file name to be in ISO-8859-8 (8 bits) and not UTF-8.
Then I can see the Hebrew in Emacs and xterm, but not in Gnome or KDE
applications. I assume you get your Hebrew name in either ISO-8859-8
or in PC DOS (CP856). I have 2 small shell scripts (below) that
converts ALL Hebrew names in a directory tree to ISO-8859-8 / UTF-8.
Ehud.
#! /bin/sh -e
# Translate all file names in this directory tree to iso-8859-8
# -------------------------------------------------------------
chk_nm ()
{
echo "\n\n---- now working on" `pwd`
for DFL in *
do
case "$DFL" in
*"�"* ) # 0xD7 is a sign for Hebrew UTF-8
NDFL=`echo "$DFL" | iconv -futf8 -thebrew` ;;
* ) # NOT UTF-8, DOS Hebrew is 0x80-0x9A
NDFL=`echo "$DFL" | tr "[-]" "[ת-א]"` ;;
esac
if [ "$DFL" != "$NDFL" ] ; then # name has changed ?
mv "$DFL" "$NDFL" # rename
echo "++++ $DFL ==> $NDFL" # show to user
DFL="$NDFL" # for recursive checking
fi
if [ ! -L "$DFL" -a -d "$DFL" ] ; then
( cd "$DFL" ; chk_nm )
fi
done
}
chk_nm # start scanning
############################## trns-utf-2-heb.sh ##############################
#! /bin/sh -e
# Translate all file names in this directory tree to utf-8
# --------------------------------------------------------
chk_nm ()
{
echo "\n\n---- now working on" `pwd`
for DFL in *
do
case "$DFL" in
*"�"* ) ;; # 0xD7 is a sign for Hebrew UTF-8
* ) # NOT UTF-8, DOS Hebrew is 0x80-0x9A
NDFL=`echo "$DFL" | tr "[-]" "[ת-א]" | iconv -fhebrew -tutf8`
if [ "$DFL" != "$NDFL" ] ; then # had any Hebrew ?
mv "$DFL" "$NDFL" # rename
echo "++++ $DFL ==> $NDFL" # show to user
DFL="$NDFL" # for recursive checking
fi ;;
esac
if [ ! -L "$DFL" -a -d "$DFL" ] ; then
( cd "$DFL" ; chk_nm )
fi
done
}
chk_nm # start scanning
############################## trns-heb-2-utf.sh ##############################
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