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Garbled japanese filenames

Postby myloch » Tue Nov 14, 2017 12:25 pm

As you may have noticed, if you don't set your windows to the proper asian locale, some file names of your floppies or cdroms may be garbled. However if you receive a rar file with garbled filenames inside, is there a way to fix the affected files to proper asian alphabet symbols? Using ms applocale or changing windows locale doesn't fix that.
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Re: Garbled japanese filenames

Postby annoyment » Tue Nov 14, 2017 1:58 pm

Unfortunately it seems ye have to split the issue into multiple separate actions (unless one succeeds where I failed in finding the combined solution), & that locales can't be manipluated to that effect after archival (from me XP, & SP2 as well :lol: ) :x
The encoding conversion part alone has been handled well, as ye may know (just "dir /b > filenames.txt" on CMD, then visit one of these three sites) :D Now for the "batch unique renaming from text/clipboard" part. Freename allows just that, but since it's a Delphi one-time quickie dunno how well does it handle JP (at least it allows hooking of external text-editors instead of just Notepad :up: ). Advanced Renamer is less straightforward, but seems more stable (me thinks it's worth a shot even though IDK if the JP encoding support has been completed, check SuperUser & StackOverflow fer details :( ). Others being Massive File Renamer (due to not seeming to have the "from text/clipboard" part) & Bulk Rename Utility (the same, although if ye ever used SubRip to convert hardsubs to text the app has a similar alternate tool + this possible recent issue) I'm not able to recommend ATM :down:
Can relate to yeh, knowing a couple doujinshites that got screwed like that, verify & notify, & good luck mate :wink:
UDPATE: Since long ago WinRAR itself implemented a "Name Encoding" solution in the "Options" menu, and it's SO DANG effective, all me rant above got just about pointless ImageImageImage
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