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Convert filenames to use only latin characters

I have a ton of filenames in Russian (and some Slovenian & Greek). To play them in my car the song titles must use only Western European characters.

  1. Is there a program that can do this file renaming?

  2. If not, is there a list of what letter(s) to use for each Cyrillic & Greek letter?

thanks - dave

Solution

  • David,

    I'm not aware of any program that will do it automatically (although given the information below, I bet you could get a computer geek friend to do it for you in exchange for a pizza.) Actually, the program really wouldn't be that hard to write in Perl.

    In any case, here is some information that would help you choose which letters to use for each Cyrillic, Slovene, and Greek letter.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_alphabet

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek

    Hope that helps a little bit!