Spanish Accented Characters creating problems - missing files, etc

I am still working w/ iTunes 7.1.1.5 as I see no need to replace it for a different version. Throughout the history of this program I have noticed that it has trouble dealing with accent marks and characters that differ from that of the english alphabet. Can somebody help me figure out a work around?
Out of all the searches and finds I made regarding this subject, I did not see anyone jumping in to help, I refuse to sit back and not look into this further!
I would rather not have to turn an "í" into an "i" for iTunes to see my music, but *I also need to know how to get back all of the music that I know I lost due to this problem*, and also all the music that I don't know that could have been lost because of accent marks.
Does the latest version of iTunes fix the problem? When did they address it?
We need help!

I really don't think the problem has much, if anything to do with iTunes, as I've had absolutely no problems with any of my files either on my Windows XP machine or on any of my Macs. Even Icelandic characters are handled perfectly well in all cases.
What might have much more to do with the problem is the file format of your hard drive(s). If you're using something ancient such as FAT32, then expect problems such as this, and plan accordingly by using simple naming of your files. If you're using NTFS, things should be OK.

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BIG PROBLEM: CSS files not loading because of international characters in file name

I have Muse Beta 7 in Spanish.
The program creates a css file called master_a-página-maestra.css in css folder. It is referenced in the resulting HTML code here:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/site_global.css?3951792836"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/master_a-p%c3%a1gina-maestra.css?fileVersionPlaceholder"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/index.css?3948175564"/>
When you work locally in your Windows formatted har drive, everything looks fine, but when you upload your files to a server, everything is screwed up. The server doesn't recognizes the URL and returns an error page, resulting in style errors in the entire site.
This can also happens with html files if the title of the page contains international characters or with images if the image file name in your Hard Drive contains international characters.
I already pointed out long time ago Muse was generating file names with international characters like á, ñ, etc but nobody cared about it. Too bad. I had to activate file name customization but I think that Muse should replace automatically this characters in the same way that it replaces other conflictive characters like commas or ampersands.
This is not a fault of the FTP client. Accented characters are not web safe regardless of the FTP client you are using. It is a server side issue. Some servers support it some others don't. I don't mind if it works in Adobe Catalyst server because the final website is going to be in another server and maybe next year when paid hosting is ended the client may move it to another server.
It makes more sense to replace accented characters in file names by their not accented equivalents ('a' instead of 'á', 'N' instead of 'Ñ', etc) and avoid all this problem.

Zak, It is funny you mention it, because the site I am talking about is hosted in 1and1. try this: http://www.artofwalls.com/rosannawalls/biografía.html
As you can see, the offending "í" in the file name causes 1and1 server to throw a "page not found" error. And this has happened with many other servers I have tried since.
Muse boast of generating code fully compatible with all major web browsers but by using international characters in file names it ggenerates code suitable only for very few web servers. International characters have been always a no-no for internet URLs. Internet was designed by people who didn't care about ascii codes beyond 127 so using international characters in html file names is just call for problems.
"to work with your hosting provider to determine how to enable Unicode encoded (UTF-8) file names and HTML files on their servers" is not a viable solution most of the time unless you are a Very Important Client of your host provider. If not, making changes means money for them and if you are the only one who complains, they are going to just tell you to not use international characters in your names.

Having problems creating a zip file with Japanese language character names

I have a bunch of files with names in Japanese characters (also Chinese, Korean, Spanish etc, but this will do for an example). The encoding is Unicode.
I wish to be able to put them in a zip file, then extract them again using any old zip tool (WinZip,PKZip,7-Zip etc)
Trouble is, every time I do it, the files inside the zipfile end up with garbage character names. The contents of the files are fine, though.
I'm aware that there used to be a bug in the java.util.zip.* classes regarding character encodings (http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;jsessionid=5bd4fe01ad8a7b4ec89afef5005da?bug_id=4244499) but as far as I can see it's supposed to have been fixed I have also tried the ZipOutputStream class from apache which allows you to set the encoding manually - no luck there either (just many different varieties of garbage characters)
Test code below. What am I missing here?
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
public class ZipTest {
static String uniqueFileName = "西　純.txt";
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
standardZip();
apacheZip();
} catch (IOException fe) {
System.out.println("problem in file - exception " + fe.getMessage());
public static void apacheZip() throws IOException {
String encoding = "";
File inputFile = new File(uniqueFileName);
FileReader reader = new FileReader(inputFile);
encoding = reader.getEncoding();
System.out.println("Using Apache - Encoding = " + encoding);
File zipFile = new File("apacheZip.zip");
org.apache.tools.zip.ZipOutputStream zipOutputStream = new org.apache.tools.zip.ZipOutputStream(
zipFile);
zipOutputStream.setEncoding(encoding);
org.apache.tools.zip.ZipEntry zipEntry = new org.apache.tools.zip.ZipEntry(uniqueFileName);
zipEntry.setSize(inputFile.length());
zipEntry.setTime(inputFile.lastModified());
zipOutputStream.putNextEntry(zipEntry);
int c = 0;
while (c >= 0) {
c = reader.read();
if (c >= 0) {
zipOutputStream.write(c);
zipOutputStream.closeEntry();
zipOutputStream.finish();
public static void standardZip() throws IOException {
String encoding = "";
File inputFile = new File(uniqueFileName);
FileReader reader = new FileReader(inputFile);
encoding = reader.getEncoding();
System.out.println("Using Java IO - Encoding = " + encoding);
File zipFile = new File("standardZip.zip");
FileOutputStream zipOut = new FileOutputStream(zipFile);
java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream zipOutputStream = new java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream(zipOut);
java.util.zip.ZipEntry zipEntry = new java.util.zip.ZipEntry(uniqueFileName);
zipEntry.setSize(inputFile.length());
zipEntry.setTime(inputFile.lastModified());
zipOutputStream.putNextEntry(zipEntry);
int c = 0;
while (c >= 0) {
c = reader.read();
if (c >= 0) {
zipOutputStream.write(c);
zipOutputStream.closeEntry();
zipOutputStream.finish();

Emma_Baillie wrote:
I have a bunch of files with names in Japanese characters (also Chinese, Korean, Spanish etc, but this will do for an example). The encoding is Unicode.
I wish to be able to put them in a zip file, then extract them again using any old zip tool (WinZip,PKZip,7-Zip etc)
Trouble is, every time I do it, the files inside the zipfile end up with garbage character names. The contents of the files are fine, though.This is becuase zip tool doesn't support unicode for zip entries. For example WinZip prior to 11.2 does not support Unicode characters in filenames. You need to look for the simillar information for other tools. You can find more on tools on their website.

How do I create a new user, move my old files etc over, and delete old user

This is why I think I need to.
My computer got hit by lightening, and I may have created a new user account through netinfo rather than system preferences /accounts/+user. Mail used to open twice, but no longer. Now, Safari askes me for my keychain password twice, Spotlight can't find a folder on the computer when the search is restricted to folder and computer, though the folder is there and easyfind finds it, and when System Preferences/Spotlight/Privacy has the hard drive icon added, then deleted, Spotlight still does not find anything. (Yes, everything is backed up, on CD, DVD, and online.) Microsoft Tec Support says
"Here is a summary of the key points of the case for your records.
When you contacted us on August 8, you had requested assistance with Microsoft Office 2004, as your installation of the updates was unable to find the correct version of the software to update. After creating a New MAC User, we identified the issue to be with a corrupt MAC User account, and not a Microsoft issue. "
I believe Microsoft. So, creating a new user was easy.
But copying files uses up too much hard drive (movies, music), and may miss keychains, preferences, mail, address book, and documents. Since Spotlight no longer works, who knows what is happening. (Yes, I've repaired persmissions, and disk repair. No change). I'm using up my hard drive trying to move files to the new user. If I share files, or put them into a public folder, then delete the old user, will I still have the old user's files in the new user's account? It is not clear to me what I should be trying to do in order to create a new user, move my old files etc over, and delete old user. Thanks.
My responses will be slow, because I have to drive to town to use the internet. I've ordered a new airport which may take care of that problem. SO be patient.

Hey -
I need to do the EXACT same thing, but have no idea how. Has anyone out there done this?
My situation is a tad different..this is a new Mac (and I'm a brand new Mac user). Tons of querks occur under my original account (videos won't run, Safari won't support certain plug-ins). I spent 6 hours on the phone w/ 4 different Apple Reps and nobody could fix it. A rep finally looked at my MacBook Pro in person today. He created a new account just to see if that would work and under that new account, everything works perfectly fine (no querks, can view video). He tried switching a million settings in my original account to no avail.
He said to create a new account (as he did) and move my files over to the new account and then go back to the original and delete it. How do you do this?! I can't figure it out! I've got a new account created, but of course it just has the default folders in it w/ the little red icons next to them! Thanks in advance!

Missing files from /etc/certificates

Hi, I have a certificate in my keychain for which I miss the .cert.pem, chain.pem, concat.pem and key.pem files in /etc/certificates.
This results in a problem in server.app as I can't configure all my web-sites correctly and server.app won't write out the correct config files.
Any idea how I can create the four files?

So, I solve this issue and one more. I really can't believe nor understand why Apple is unable to create a server.app that can handle the simpelst things. What trainees are working on it?
You need two fixes:
1. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4539 (OS X Server: Saving a certificate identity to the system keychain does not work with Server services)
The importan part is, that you need (!!) to reboot your machine. Only than the files are generated. I don't understand what's so hard to generate them right when adding the certificate but that's an other story.
If you than try to use your now finally available certificate, you are hit by this problem:
2. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4266473?start=0&tstart=0 (Strange issue with Dovecot (err 89))
And yes, that's because server.app comments out the SSL stuff in the dovecot config. Which of course makes a lot of sense if you want to use SSL. The bad sideeffect is, that dovecot won't startup with this wrong config.
Enough hours lost by this Apple botch...

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