[olug] Converting EUC to UTF-8

[Aric Aasgaard]

Thanks, That is awesome to have in the archive.

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Eric
P
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 11:04 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Converting EUC to UTF-8

Eric P wrote:
> I have a zip file from six years back of which all the filenames and 
> their content are EUC encoded (Japanese).
> 
> Nowadays everything (Asian languages, etc.) is UTF-8, and I'm trying to 
> figure out how to get the filenames and their content to UTF-8.
> 
> I know how to go back and forth between EUC and SJIS but not to UTF.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.
> Eric
> 

Ok, answering my own post (mostly for net posterity if someone else stumbles
upon this thread).

In my case it turns out I just needed to convert the filenames from euc to
utf-8.  The magic command to do this is:
convmv -r -f euc-jp -t utf8 *

This shows you what (if any) the new "fixed" filenames will become.  To make
the conversion permanent type:
convmv --notest -r -f euc-jp -t utf8 *

Worked like a breeze.
Eric
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