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Bug#220856: ITP: convmv -- converts filenames from one encoding to another



On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 23:32, Raphael Zimmerer wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name    : convmv
>   Version         : 1.05
>   Upstream Author : Bjoern Jacke <bjoern [at] j3e.de>
> * URL or Web page : http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/convmv-1.05.tar.gz
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : converts filenames from one encoding to another
> 
>  convmv is meant to help convert a single filename, a directory tree and
>  the contained files or a whole filesystem into a different encoding. It
>  just converts the filenames, not the content of the files. A special
>  feature of convmv is that it also takes care of symlinks, also converts
>  the symlink target pointer in case the symlink target is being converted,
>  too.
>  .
>  All this comes in very handy when one wants to switch over from old 8-bit
>  locales to UTF-8 locales. It is also possible to convert directories to
>  UTF-8 which are already partly UTF-8 encoded.
> 
> It's already packaged, I'am looking for a Sponsor :)

Shouldn't this be an RFS, then?

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