- 1 year ago
Re-Encoding of wrong filenames
If you have filenames with incorrect or incompatible character encodings, and you want to re-encode them to a different encoding, you can use Python to accomplish this. Here's an example of how you can re-encode filenames using Python:
pythonimport os
source_directory = "path/to/source_directory"
target_directory = "path/to/target_directory"
source_encoding = "original_encoding"
target_encoding = "desired_encoding"
# Iterate over the files in the source directory
for filename in os.listdir(source_directory):
# Re-encode the filename
try:
new_filename = filename.encode(source_encoding).decode(target_encoding)
except UnicodeEncodeError:
print(f"Failed to re-encode: {filename}")
continue
# Build the source and target file paths
source_file = os.path.join(source_directory, filename)
target_file = os.path.join(target_directory, new_filename)
# Rename the file
try:
os.rename(source_file, target_file)
print(f"Re-encoded: {filename} -> {new_filename}")
except FileNotFoundError:
print(f"File not found: {filename}")
except FileExistsError:
print(f"Target file already exists: {new_filename}")
Before running this code, make sure you have Python installed on your system. Adjust the values of source_directory
, target_directory
, source_encoding
, and target_encoding
to match your specific requirements.
In the code, os.listdir(source_directory)
is used to iterate over the files in the source directory. For each file, the encode()
method is used to convert the filename from the original encoding to a byte sequence, and then the decode()
method is used to convert the byte sequence to the desired encoding.
The source and target file paths are built using os.path.join()
, and then os.rename()
is used to rename the file with the re-encoded filename. If any errors occur during the process, such as a file not found or a target file already existing, appropriate error messages are printed.
Please note that this code assumes that the filenames are encoded using a specific character encoding, and you need to specify the original_encoding
and desired_encoding
variables accordingly. Common encodings include "utf-8", "latin-1", "cp1252", etc.