command line applications don't handle accented characters well

[Colin Brace]

James Wilkinson wrote:

> At a quick look, iconv helps to convert file contents; see
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100934 for help on
> transliterating filenames.

Thanks for the very useful explanation. I downloaded convmv from here

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1004557/com/convmv-1.07-1.noarch.rpm.html

and am experimenting with it.

The sooner we all convert to Unicode the better!