Re: How to detect the encoding of a string?

[Mike FABIAN <mfabian@xxxxxxx>]

Simos Xenitellis <simos74@xxxxxxx> さんは書きました:

> Στις 20/Ιούν/2005, ημέρα Δευτέρα και ώρα 12:59, ο/η Mike FABIAN έγραψε:

>> I think it is better to use the filename-encoding-conversion tool
>> "convmv" to fix the encoding *after* unpacking the archive.
>> 
>> See: http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/

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> Though you must agree that this does not follow the principle of "Just
> works"; the GUI tool will not be able to do the work for them. Most
> end-users will be in a "Am stuck&give up" situation. :(
>
> If we cannot solve it in a gracefull way, we might be able to put this
> whole issue under the carpet if we identify that a very limited number
> of end-users are really affected. Can we say that? People from distros,
> do you have feedback on this?

I didn't get much feedback because of such problems. Most users seem
to be still using only ASCII in file names.

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