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Error on filename encoding (utf-8)

I’ve migrate a website from hostgator to digital ocean and I have filenames like: 11-01-03-La-Gr#U00e1fica-Completa.jpg and in hostgator I’ve see it like: 11-01-03-La-Gráfica-Completa.jpg

I’ve tried to change it within the console like: convmv -r -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 . convmv -r -f ascii -t UTF-8 . and so… But I can’t change it. I don’t know what to do, the are almost 3000 files like that. Thanks

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Push Studio • June 30, 2016

Thanks to both. Now I can see it right in terminal / console… but apache is still with the error… And I’ve added the line:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

or

AddDefaultCharset es_ES.UTF-8
gndo • June 30, 2016

Here’s a summary from a solution by Sakshi’s Oracle blog that works for Ubuntu:

sudo locale-gen es_ES.UTF-8
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

then edit /etc/default/locale and add LC_ALL and LANGUAGE with values “es_ES.UTF-8”, like this

LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
LC_ALL=es_ES.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=es_ES.UTF-8

Now try the locale command again.

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