Renames folder and file names that were erroneously encoded by Windows using CP437 back to CP932
You may have noticed that some members-only content, especially zip archives, have broken subfolder and file names such as ò╟Äå (meant to be 壁紙) and 2îÄâüâôâoü[â{âCâX.wav (meant to be 2月メンバーボイス.wav); this is because the archives were originally compressed on a machine with a Japanese Windows installation, where by default Windows encodes characters using Code Page 932. However, trying to access it on a machine with a different regional version of Windows, such as a North American machine that by default uses Code Page 437, will interpret the characters incorrectly and thus spit out the aforementioned gibberish strings.
This is a short program that will help rename all the files and subfolders within a specified directory back into Japanese.
Requirements: Python3 installation on your machine
Open up the program in a text editor of your choice and make sure the directory is correctly set.
Additionally, make sure that the wrong_encoding variable is correctly set for your machine; I've preset its value as CP437. correct_encoding has already been preset to CP932.
Finally, run it! From the directory the program is in, in a terminal window simply run py holorename.py
Enjoy your Hololive membership content, now once again back within legible directories!