Re: find encoding of filenames

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Kevin Mark wrote:
>
> > maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool
>
> This tool seems to work either on the whole /home/user directory or on the
> whole system. I do not want that. I just want to convert the encoding of
> filenames that belong to a single directory. I do not want to migrate the
> whole system to utf8.

Is iconv what you are looking for?
NAME
       iconv - Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another

SYNOPSIS
       iconv -f encoding -t encoding inputfile

DESCRIPTION
       The iconv program converts the encoding of characters in 
inputfile from one coded character set to another. The result
       is written to standard output unless otherwise specified by the 
--output option.



> Moreover, the original question still remains. Given a bunch of files, how
> do I determine their current encoding?


Use file command perhaps? Real example:
$> file foo.txt
foo.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text


->HS