[HyperHacker]

I have several files whose names contain foreign characters, such as é and various Japanese characters. (The Japanese shows up as garbage, since the names aren't in Unicode, but this doesn't cause problems anywhere else.) It seems the command prompt doesn't recognize these characters. For example if I try to copy a file with an é in the name, it says the file can't be found and the é is changed to some odd symbol. Is it possible to fix this without having to rename them all? No other program has problems with these files, but I use batch scripts to move them around and such fairly often and it's annoying having to go in and do the last few manually.

[LLXX]

Try not to use filenames with foreign characters... it really makes them much harder to manipulate as many programs will be unable to process the filenames correctly.

Use the short filename for the file.

[HyperHacker]

I don't really have a choice (yay BitTorrent ), nor do I like the idea of just not using foreign characters. That's like fixing a printer by not printing. No other program yet has had trouble with them.