Renaming Files

I own a Lacie Big5 to backup my files, which amount to almost 2 Tb right now. Lately I’ve had some compatibility issues as some files I copied from my Windows Vista machine were not readable from my Kubuntu 9.10.

After checking I’ve seen the issue arose from Spanish characters like ‘á’. Surprising, as Linux should support them, but oh well. A bit of Googling and the solution was found: Métamorphose.

Run it with the following reg exp:

[ñÑáéíóúÁÉÍÓÚüÜ@¡¿—àèìòùÀÈÌÒÙ$£¥€¢ƒäÄïÏöÖçÇãêß]

and issue solved! You may need to tweak the reg exp according to your language if you use some extra “non-ASCII” characters, but it’s easy to do.