Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] GPSbabel mishandles files with utf-8 names.

[Steve E. <ste...@gm...>]

On 12/03/2015 5:19 PM, "Steve Elliott" <ste...@gm...> wrote:

> All,
>
> I have prepared some Google My Maps layers for my planned trip in France &
> find that files named after my destinations are rejected by GPSbabel if
> they contain common utf-8 encoded accented characters in the filename.
>
> [steve@Regret ~]$ gpsbabel -V
>> GPSBabel Version 1.5.2
>
>
>> [steve@Regret ~]$ cp Château.kml Chateau.kml
>> [steve@Regret ~]$ ll
>> total 172
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 84250 Mar 12 16:50 Chateau.kml
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 84250 Mar  9 21:41 Château.kml
>>
>> [steve@Regret ~]$ gpsbabel -w -i kml -f Château.kml -x nuketypes,tracks
>> -o gpx
>> Cannot open 'Château.kml' for read.  Error was 'No such file or
>> directory'.
>
>
>> [steve@Regret ~]$ gpsbabel -w -i kml -f Chateau.kml -x nuketypes,tracks
>> -o gpx
>
>
>
> Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong?  Or is this a (known?) fault?
>
> Regards
> Steve
>
>