latin1 (iso-8859-1) on filenames (not the file content itself)

[Markus Schönhaber]

rodrigochinaski wrote:

> I've come from a debian unstable system. I have an ext3 partition with
> ISO-8859-1 characters at the filename. Filenames with accents (á é ó í
> etc) and cedilla (ç). However, nautilus, gnome-terminal or even the
> console can't display the filenames correctly.
>
[...]
>
> What should I do? Is there a way to make the ubuntu system display
> correcty filenames with iso-8859-1 characters on it?
>
> Or should I rename all my files using pure ascii characters?
>
> Or should I rename the files using accents, so it'll updated under
> UTF-8 ?

You could use convmv to convert the filenames to UTF-8. You'll find conmv 
here:
http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/
and the man page here:
http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/man/
For Edgy, there is even a package in universe.

convmv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8 <filenames>
should print what changes would be made. If you're satisfied with this, add 
the --notest option to really get the files renamed.

Regards
  mks