fixing (invalid coding)

[Conny Enström]

2013-05-17 22:19, rikona skrev:
> I have been doing lots of file copies/restores in a new box. Turns out
> many files have 'odd' characters in them that seem to be causing
> problems in 12.04. Some software [like grsync] does not work properly
> with these files. CLI with sudo seems to do well though - it seems to
> be GUI pgms that have trouble. The offending files have '(invalid
> coding)' tacked on the end of the name [in the GUI].
>
> The chrs seem to be in foreign file names, especially German.
>
> I have hundreds [+] of these in a wide variety of locations. It's not
> possible to look through all the files, in thousands of dirs, to find
> them. Is there a way to list ALL the files that have this problem
> and/or fix it in the file name by, say, substituting a like-sounding
> OK chr in the name?
>
> Thanks...
>
>   rikona
>
>

I had the same problem but in Swedish, I can't remember what program I 
used to fix it but take a look at this: 
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/convmv.1.html