[LAU] abcde troubles

Hello everyone! I'm using Debian's abcde version 2.45.2 and it won't write files, when the names contain anything beyond the normal ASCII characters - i.e. German umlauts, French and Spanish accents. I've recently heard, that I'm not the only one experiencing this problem, so I suppose, that it is a general problem. There are no difficulties ripping the tracks, since the abcde.ID directories will exist afterwards, holding files called track??.flac. It doesn't matter if the extra characters are from the UTF-8 set or from one of the ISO-8859-* sets. Is there a way to safely circumvent tat? My filesystem certainly doesn't bother about all those characters and neither would I. At the moment I have to substitue them for each ripped album and it's bloody annoying. :-( Any ideas are ver much appreciated. Warm regards Julien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Such Is Life: Very Intensely Adorable; Free And Jubilating Amazement Revels, Dancing On - FLOWERS! ====== Find my music at ====== http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html ..................................... "If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you." (Winnie the Pooh)