(not fully working) Manual character replacement in file names - if "chardet" and "convmv" fail

manualdetox.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os, sys

#import fileinput
AAA, BBB = u'‚¬…Ÿì¡ ýØç槣Ÿ§çç嬅Øý', u'éčůčýíář욊žÚčžššňČěřň'

filelist = [os.path.join(dp, f) for dp, dn, fn in os.walk('.') for f in fn]
filelist.sort()
for line in filelist :
    # os.listdir(u'.'):
    print('OLD = ', line.encode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape').decode('ISO-8859-1'))

    newfix  = []
    for j,c in enumerate(line):
        rr = False
        for f,t in zip(AAA, BBB): ## all replacements
            #fix = fix.replace(f.encode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape').decode('ISO-8859-1'), t.encode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape').decode('ISO-8859-1'))
            #print("              ", f.encode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape')[-1:]==c.encode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape'), f.encode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape')[-1:], c.encode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape'),t, newfix)
            if f.encode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape')[-1:]==c.encode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape'):
                newfix += [t]
                #print("REPLACING", f.encode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape')[-1:], c.encode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape'))
                rr = True
                #break
        if not rr:
            newfix += [c.encode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape').decode('ISO-8859-1')]  ## [b'Z', 'á', b'z', b'n', ...

    #print(newfix)
    print('                                     NEW = ', ''.join(newfix))
    os.rename(line.encode('utf-8', 'surrogateescape').decode('ISO-8859-1'), ''.join(newfix))