UTF-8 and filenames

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 11:09 +0100, 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...)

Install convmv

Simo.