RE: dash was converted o a wierd character

2010-03-17 Thread Jerry Schwartz
>I would suggest that the manner appropriate to most any environment is to >just use plain ascii for your filenames :-) The "swung dash" you refer to >is called a tilde, btw, and is mostly used in spanish. > [JS] ... and mathematical notation. I certainly agree with your suggestion about file na

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2010-03-17 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Hi everybody! Johan De Meersman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Michael Dykman wrote: > >> [[...]] >> > > I would suggest that the manner appropriate to most any environment is to > just use plain ascii for your filenames :-) [[...]] Let me voice my full support for this position.

Re: dash was converted o a wierd character

2010-03-17 Thread Johan De Meersman
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Michael Dykman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Johan De Meersman > wrote: > > On *nix, look for a utility called convmv. > > > > I've got a hunch that your original file comes from a windows host, and > the > > filenames may have been copied from a word

Re: dash was converted o a wierd character

2010-03-16 Thread Michael Dykman
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Johan De Meersman wrote: > On *nix, look for a utility called convmv. > > I've got a hunch that your original file comes from a windows host, and the > filenames may have been copied from a word document or something similar. > Microsoft knows best, and thus tends

Re: dash was converted o a wierd character

2010-03-16 Thread Johan De Meersman
On *nix, look for a utility called convmv. I've got a hunch that your original file comes from a windows host, and the filenames may have been copied from a word document or something similar. Microsoft knows best, and thus tends to convert regular dashes into some weird, slightly elongated versio

dash was converted o a wierd character

2010-03-15 Thread Néstor
I have an sql file that I dump(mysqldump) and then I installed on a new system and some how the dashes on the file were changed to some wierd character. When I look at the sql file in my windows machine using PUTTY I get stuff like "1.01.A â the second" When I look at the same file from my linux