Converting all files to UTF-8 ?

Vincent Trouilliez vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr
Tue Dec 28 20:22:10 UTC 2004


Okay.

So, now, how can I use iconv to convert all my file names ?

1) it doesn't look like iconv has a 'recursive' option to process
automatically sub-folders.

2) it needs to know the original encoding format... how the hell do I
know that ? Files are many thousands, over 10 year old and come from
CDs, internet, MS-DOS, Win95,  Win XP etc, they probably don't use the
same format ! :-/

Sure must be a solution, if UTF-8 really becomes the norm, then millions
of people are facing the same problem as I am now. So there has to be a
solution...

Vince







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