Hi Monks, I Try to walk a directory tree to re-tag my mp3 collection.

I have a file (mp3.csv) which contains path;metadata. This file is processed to put the metadata in the corresponding path.

However, when I have my Perl script to go through the file it mostly fails to get to the files and directories as soon as the characters used are UTF8'ish.

Example: a line in the mp3.csv file reads:
/media/usbdisk/music/checkit/Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young/Déjà Vu/01 - Carry On.mp3;Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young;Déjà Vu;Carry On;1;Rock;1970

When I run the script, it says it cannot find the file, thereby displaying:

/media/usbdisk/music/checkit/Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young/D▒j▒ Vu/10 - Everybody I Love You.mp3;Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young;D?j?▒ Vu;Everybody I Love You;10;Rock;1970

As you can see the characters have been messed up, even after I opened the file and manually entered the right characters (of did a copy-paste from the correct directory and filename).

How do I get the script to work properly?

Please monks - help me!

Regards,
John
Ubuntu Hardy, ext3 filesystem, Perl 5.8.8

In reply to encoding problem om Ubuntu Linux by j.goor

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