Re: shell script for removing unprintable characters in file names

Peace be upon you. (UTF-8) does not work with us in Garmin devices and this
prevents us from using local language maps.. We request local language maps
without (UTF-8.) Thank you

في السبت، ٣٠ نوفمبر ٢٠٢٤، ١٠:٢٩ م Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@freebsd.org> كتب:

> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se> writes:
> > > I am tasked with recovering hundreds or more files created with
> > > unknown OSs and have unknown characters in the name, [...]
> > Look for convtools on github.
>
> Sorry, I meant conv-tools:
>
>     https://github.com/dag-erling/conv-tools
>
> It works best if you have an idea which 8-bit encoding was used to
> create those files.
>
> (I used to work at a university that had NetApp filers configured for
> ISO-8859-1 and staff members of all nationalities who had their
> endpoints set to their native language instead of the local one; I wrote
> conv-tools to assist support staff in cleaning up users' home
> directories after they were migrated to newer filers configured for
> UTF-8.)
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@FreeBSD.org
>
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