Names to UTF-8?

[jerry <jerry@tr2.com>]

Hello,

   My weekly Tarsnap cron job emails me a raft of errors that I have 
been studiously ignoring....
something like:

tarsnap:  directoryname/Wells Fargo Account Summary .pdf: Can't 
translate pathname 'directoryname/Wells Fargo Account Summary .pdf' to 
UTF-8


These are files that I download from institutions - for example, my 
bank.  I have no control over the names.  Apparently,
the bank indulges in cute little "trademark" signs etc.

Can anybody suggest a strategy for dealing with this?  It would be OK by 
me to writei a script to rename the files to something sensible, or to 
program Tarnsap to tolerate these names - without changing its behavior 
otherwise.  But I would rather not rename them by hand - there's a lot 
of them, and more will appear in time.

   Thanks in advance,

                   - Jerry Kaidor