- find non-english characters in filenames?
- Posted by matt1544@gmail.com on April 9th, 2006
I use an Iomega backup product for automatic backup, and I get an error
each time I restart the program, stating that I have some non-english
filenames that it can't copy. It's not a big deal, but I have to hit
'OK' to let it run. That's a hassle when it comes to automated backups.
Anyway, this/these files are most probably some MP3s that has some
non-english letters. Is there any XP search technique that I can use to
find these non-english filenames?
I have 1000+ MP3s, so I really don't want to examine them individually
looking for funny umlauts and tildes.
Thanks for any advice in finding these files (so I can rename them into
english).
Matt
- Posted by Mike Williams on April 9th, 2006
matt1544@gmail.com wrote:
You would probably have to use something that enables a search with
"regular expressions" and characters outside the range [a-z] or [0..9].
You should also look to Iomega for a patch or upgrade that can handle
Unicode. It's the 21st century and there's no excuse for them not to be
handling such characters: Windows NT has had unicode support since 1994.
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