Re: UTF-8 and filenames

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Hi.

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:09:27 +0100 (CET), Linus Walleij wrote:

> 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...)

I have to admit that there were not many files in my $HOME that were
not US-ASCII to begin with (and thus valid UTF-8 as well). The few
that were left I renamed when I came across them.

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