Strange file names

[Renaud (Ron) Olgiati]

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 13:00, my mailbox was graced by a missive
 from "Matias D'Ambrosio" <angasule at gmail.com> who wrote:

>  I used convmv for this same issue, and it worked great. Keep in mind
> that convmv's default is to *not* do anything, it just reads the
> current filenames and tells you what it *would* do, until you
> specifically give it the switch to do the conversion. So it's rather
> safe to try it a few times and see what the output would be.

Got convmv, but have the problem that it need to know the original encoding 
used.

Would this be kept somewhere in my /etc/ directory ? (I keep a copy of /etc 
in /home/etc, can be a great help after upgrading or reinstalling the OS) 
 
TIA,
 
Ron.
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