Russian filenames

[bolnaia-sobaka.livejournal.com]

I have some Russian music files on my computer. For some, I can see the cyrillic filename fine (which I assume means it was typed on a computer running in latin alphabet mode). However, I have some files that seem to have been written on a computer running in cyrillic, since the filename shows up as gibberish.

Example: Владимир Высоцкий - Äèàëîã ó òåëåâèçîðà

The singer's name comes out looking fine, since I wrote it myself. But the title of the song... Erh...

Is rebooting my computer in Russian the only option I have for knowing what the title is?

Thanks in advance!

Comments

[alamar.livejournal.com]

No, you can try to use shtirlitz or other convertors on it.

That's because there are a lot of character encoding standards, and your example appears to be in latin1/iso-8859-1 encoding, which lacks russian letters, that's why you see only umlauts.
While it was written in windows-1251 encoding, which have russian letters in it.

That is in fact:
Диалог у телевизора

How did I got it? Opened kate text editor (you may use whatever you like), set encoding to iso-8859-1, pasted this text. Saved. Rejpened file, set encoding to windows-1251. Problem solved.

We russians hate those encoding problems, they are tricky.

[bolnaia-sobaka.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you so much! :o)

I tried doing it on my own, but it's not working... I downloaded Shtirlitz, but I don't understand what I'm supposed to do. Do you think you could give me step by step instructions?

Is kate only for Linux and Unix? I don't have any text editors installed on this computer. Do you have suggestions for one for Windows? I downloaded one, but I could change the encoding to iso-8859-1... Argh!

[alamar.livejournal.com]

I don't really know, but you've got better options already as I see.

[temcat.livejournal.com]

In Stirlitz, click on New icon, then paste the content into the new text window. At least I do it like this.

[coldshadows24.livejournal.com]

I love this site:
http://www.stanwardine.com/cgi-bin/russianconverter.pl

[coldshadows24.livejournal.com]

also, choose windows-1251 for better results

[happy-accidents.livejournal.com]

You've saved my life tonight! I was just transfering Russian songs to my new laptop, and was having the same problems.

[coldshadows24.livejournal.com]

I used to have that same problem all the time until I found this site.. it really is a life-saver.

[bolnaia-sobaka.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thank you so much! Life has suddenly become easy.

[coldshadows24.livejournal.com]

No problem

[spazzling21.livejournal.com]

The title might come up if you open it in iTunes?

[vargtimmen.livejournal.com]

Usually I keep the IDv3 tag as that gibberish (Äèàëîã ó òåëåâèçîðà) and have the filename in transliterated Cyrillic (since Windows can't handle anything else). The way to find out what a song: play it in winamp, go down to Misc, then click Misc Opts, and "Generate HTML playlist" will pop up. You can change the encoding of this page to Win-1251.

[sofa-m.livejournal.com]

there's a program that will convert your IDv3 tags from Cyrillic into transliterated Cyrillic...
look on google for 'MP3Translit', or I can toss it into your mailbox - it's only 125k, just give me your email address

[vargtimmen.livejournal.com]

petro@grad.com, thank you!

I wonder if it works for Hebrew and Greek too.

[sofa-m.livejournal.com]

no, i don't think it works for anything other than cyrillic, although i haven't tried it
ok, i sent it to your email, sorry for the delay