Re: Re: character sets and filenames

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 17:49, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> The user used an encoding other than the "encoding used by the operating 
> system."
> 
> By fiat, Unix filenames have been decreed to be using UTF-8; still plenty of 
> stuff creates files using iso-8859-1, et al…
> 
> There is no easy solution for this one.

How about a tool to guess the encoding and re-write the filenames
as UTF8.  Would this sufficient?

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