Re: find encoding of filenames
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On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:47:36PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> 1. Given a bunch of files, how can I find out the encoding of their
> filenames?
> 2. Which encoding is the best, more portable, should be preferred...?
>
> Why I need this?
> I am trying to burn couple of files on Debian Etch using k3b (0.12.17).
> These files were originally located on another machine running Fedora Core
> 1 and I copied them onto the Debian machine. However when I am trying to
> burn them using k3b, I am getting the following error
>
> Encountered an incorrectly encoded filename xxxxx.map
> This may be caused by a system update which changed the local character set.
> You may use convmv (http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/) to fix the filename
> encoding.
> Could not determine size of resulting image file.
>
>
> However inorder to use convmv, I need to know the original encoding and
> figure out the final encoding and then apply convmv.
>
> Any ideas/suggestions/comments?
>
> thanks
> raju
maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool
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