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convmv is meant to help convert a single filename, a directory tree and the
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contained files or a whole filesystem into a different encoding. It just
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converts the filenames, not the content of the files. A special feature of
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convmv is that it also takes care of symlinks, also converts the symlink target
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pointer in case the symlink target is being converted, too.
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All this comes in very handy when one wants to switch over from old 8-bit
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locales to UTF-8 locales. It is also possible to convert directories to UTF-8
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which are already partly UTF-8 encoded. convmv is able to detect if certain
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files are UTF-8 encoded and will skip them by default. To turn this smartness
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off use the --nosmart switch.
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WWW: http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/man/
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