Pablo Saratxaga <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > What will more likely happen, is that Linux distributions will include > a special conversion tool so that when the switch to utf-8 is done, > the filenames can be converted (you tell the tool your old encoding). > Good tools will be able to work on directories and files instead of whole > partitions, allowing for different possible legacy encodings for differents > directories under /home Currently I use a simple script using 'iconv' to convert filenames in legacy encodings to UTF-8 (attached). For example, if I have a directory containing file with names in ISO-8859-1 encoding, I call mviconv -f ISO-8859-1 * and then all file names in that directory are UTF-8 encoded. > Good tolls will also be able to not convert a filename that already is > a valid utf-8 sequence. My script doesn't yet do any fancy stuff like that, it is still very primitive.
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