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Brain no worky... by LongFist2009-01-29 16:09:51
  teh google-fu, i haz eet by confused.brit2009-01-29 16:14:15
    Another option by confused.brit 2009-01-29 17:42:28
Looks like there is a filename sanitizer in Synaptic called Detox

"utility to replace problematic characters in filenames
Detox is a utility designed to clean up filenames. It replaces difficult to
work with characters, such as spaces, with standard equivalents. It will also
clean up filenames with UTF-8 or Latin-1 (or CP-1252) characters in them.

Features:

* Removal or replacement of upper ASCII Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) characters
* Removal or replacement of UTF-8 encoded Unicode characters.
* Removal or replacement of spaces and other potentially tricky characters
* Trimming of excessive "_" and "-"s
* Directory recursion, dry runs, verbose listings

It is designed with safety in mind. It won't overwrite a file that already
exists, and it doesn't touch special files if not requested."

This was from mint which forks from Ubuntu, so chances are good its there for you too.
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