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Total Commander cannot access files containing certain characters like ALT+255. What can I do?

April 26, 2017certain characters Commander containing files total

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Total Commander cannot access files containing certain characters like ALT+255. What can I do?

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DOS and Windows use different character sets, ASCII and ANSI. Certain characters contained in ASCII such as DOS line drawing characters do not exist in Windows! You must start a DOS box and rename the file by hand with RENAME. A similar problem exists on Windows NT: This system uses Unicode to store file names. If there is a file name from a different language than set in Windows (e.g. Russian or Chinese), Total Commander cannot access it.