Re: Re: Folder tree does not display iso-8859-1 characters properly

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 2003.04.02 14:11, albrecht.dress@arcor.de wrote:
> > Ah. Maybe I should ask someone why my terminal emulator/shell can't
> > display UTF-8 correctly =) ?
> 
> Afaik, all you have to do is setting your xterm to a iso10646 font
> (instead of iso8859) and add "-u8" to interpet input as utf-8.
> 
> > Seriously, doesn't the whole file-system have to be renamed then,
> along
> > with mucho headache?
> 
> Yes, but you can do this automagically, at least if you don't have
> file names containing a whitespace. Assuming you're using bash and
> want to convert german Umlauts:
> 
> for n in $(find . -name "*[äöüÄÖÜß]*") ; do
> new=$(echo $n | iconv -f iso-8859-15 -t utf8)
> mv "$n" "$new"
> done
> 
> This may, however, have unwanted side effects on old (non utf-8 aware)
> apps...

We could process the scanned filenames with libbalsa_utf8_sanitize() to 
be on the safe side.

-Pawel