UTF-8 and filenames

[Pádraig Brady]

Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 
>> I'm thinking of writing a draft guideline for the packaging committee to
>> mandate all filenames be in utf-8.
> 
> As a side note: many users (including yours truly) really want to
> migrate their $HOME recursively from ISO8859-1 etc to UTF-8. Has anyone
> seen a good tool for this? I've written small scripts myself but never
> seen a program to do it. The problem grows worse when you keep legacy
> files on NFS shares and the like.
> 
> (I guess all the Swedes, German, French and Spanish with a legacy of
> files in $HOME have the same problem as me...)

If you want to report non UTF8 files then
have a look at the "bad names" functionality
in FSlint which is in extras.

I might get round to implementing a fix up
function in the next version where the user
would specify the encoding to convert from.

Also have a look at convmv

Pádraig.