Changing filenames from Greeklish => Greek (subprocess complain)

[Νικόλαος Κούρας]

Τη Τετάρτη, 5 Ιουνίου 2013 9:43:18 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Νικόλαος Κούρας έγραψε:
> Τη Τετάρτη, 5 Ιουνίου 2013 9:32:15 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης MRAB έγραψε:
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> > On 05/06/2013 18:43, οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½ οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½ wrote:
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> > > οΏ½οΏ½ οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½, 5 οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½ 2013 8:56:36 οΏ½.οΏ½. UTC+3, οΏ½ οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½ Steven D'Aprano οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½:
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> > > Somehow, I don't know how because I didn't see it happen, you have one or
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> > > more files in that directory where the file name as bytes is invalid when
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> > > decoded as UTF-8, but your system is set to use UTF-8. So to fix this you
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> > > need to rename the file using some tool that doesn't care quite so much
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> > > about encodings. Use the bash command line to rename each file in turn
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> > > until the problem goes away.
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> ' leade to that unknown encoding of this bytestream '\305\365\367\336\ \364\357\365\ \311\347\363\357\375.mp3'
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> > > But please tell me Steven what linux tool you think it can encode the weird filename to proper 'οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½ οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½ οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½.mp3' utf-8?
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> > > or we cna write a script as i suggested to decode back the bytestream using all sorts of available decode charsets boiling down to the original greek letters.
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> Actually you were correct i was typing greek and is aw the fileneme here in gogole groups as:
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> > > But renaming ia hsell access like 'mv 'Euxi tou Ihsou.mp3' 'οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½ οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½ οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½.mp3
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> so maybe the filenames have to be decoded to greek-iso but then agian the contain both greek letters but their extension are in english chars like '.mp3'
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> > Using Python, I think you could get the filenames using os.listdir, 
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> > Then, for each name, you could decode from its current encoding and 
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> > encode to UTF-8 and rename the file, passing the old and new paths to
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> > os.rename as bytestrings.
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> Iam not sure i follow:
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> Change this:
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> # Compute a set of current fullpaths
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> path = "/home/nikos/public_html/data/apps/"
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> for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
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> 	for fullpath in files:
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> 		fullpaths.add( os.path.join(root, fullpath) )
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> to what to make the full url readable by files.py?

MRAB can you please explain in more clarity your idea of solution?