From: Johan De Meersman Date: March 17 2010 9:02am Subject: Re: dash was converted o a wierd character List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/220973 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001485e74caa2b979e0481fb5e66 --001485e74caa2b979e0481fb5e66 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 document or something similar. > > Microsoft knows best, and thus tends to convert regular dashes into some > > weird, slightly elongated version. If you copy that to a filename, and > then > > move that file to a *nix host, you get strange stuff. It's all for your > own > > good, apparently. > > That is exactly the phenomenon I was referring to.and I run into it > again and again. > > Here is a copy of the table explaining the details of those > characters. It should inspire some ideas on how to address these in a > manner appropriate to your environment. > 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. -- Bier met grenadyn Is als mosterd by den wyn Sy die't drinkt, is eene kwezel Hy die't drinkt, is ras een ezel --001485e74caa2b979e0481fb5e66--