Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:42:25PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: Just a thought: $ touch äöüß.éèâ $ ls -lh äöüß.éèâ -rw-r--r-- 1 jrschulz jrschulz 0 2007-03-26 18:40 äöüß.éèâ $ ls -1 filelist $ file filelist filelist: UTF-8 Unicode text, with escape sequences Interesting ... if I

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-26 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kevin Mark wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool I managed to install this package. But how exactly do I use this package? There is no binary, no manpages whatsoever. The /usr/share/doc/utf8-migration-tool/README is cryptic enough

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 11:30 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool I managed to install this package. But how exactly do I use this package? There is no binary, no manpages

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-26 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Greg Folkert wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 11:30 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool I managed to install this package. But how exactly do I use this package? There is no

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-26 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kevin Mark wrote: maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool This tool seems to work either on the whole /home/user directory or on the whole system. I do not want that. I just want to convert the encoding of filenames that belong to a single directory. I do not want to migrate the whole system

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-26 Thread H.S.
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool This tool seems to work either on the whole /home/user directory or on the whole system. I do not want that. I just want to convert the encoding of filenames that belong to a single directory. I do not

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi: Moreover, the original question still remains. Given a bunch of files, how do I determine their current encoding? Just a thought: $ touch äöüß.éèâ $ ls -lh äöüß.éèâ -rw-r--r-- 1 jrschulz jrschulz 0 2007-03-26 18:40 äöüß.éèâ $ ls -1 filelist $ file filelist

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-26 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Jochen Schulz wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi: Moreover, the original question still remains. Given a bunch of files, how do I determine their current encoding? Just a thought: $ touch äöüß.éèâ $ ls -lh äöüß.éèâ -rw-r--r-- 1 jrschulz jrschulz 0 2007-03-26 18:40 äöüß.éèâ $ ls -1

find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
1. Given a bunch of files, how can I find out the encoding of their filenames? 2. Which encoding is the best, more portable, should be preferred...? Why I need this? I am trying to burn couple of files on Debian Etch using k3b (0.12.17). These files were originally located on another machine

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:47:36PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: 1. Given a bunch of files, how can I find out the encoding of their filenames? 2. Which encoding is the best, more portable, should be preferred...? Why I need this? I am

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kevin Mark wrote: maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool Which package contains this command? $apt-file search migration-tool gdesklets: usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-migration-tool gdesklets: usr/share/gdesklets/migration-tool raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 23:22 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool Which package contains this command? $apt-file search migration-tool gdesklets: usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-migration-tool gdesklets:

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 11:22:39PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool Which package contains this command? $apt-file search migration-tool gdesklets:

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 23:22 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool Which package contains this command? $apt-file search migration-tool gdesklets: usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-migration-tool gdesklets: