[Digikam-users] utf-8

[Gilles Caulier]

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 17:15, Pottier Michel wrote:
> Le mardi 28 novembre 2006 12:09, Fabien a écrit :
> > Caulier Gilles wrote:
> > > Fabien,
> > >
> > > Since all major linux dist. will toogle to UTF8, I think than the
> > > content of this thread must be added on FAQ.
> >
> > Yes, I agree.
> > I did some tests about that. There are some tools to rename files with
> > the new encoding...
> > With ubuntu, there's a migration tool named utf8-migration-tool (written
> > in python) to do the job :
> > http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/dapper/misc/utf8-migration-tool
> >
> > There's also convmv (written in perl) :
> > http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/man/
> >
> > Could people using other distributions check if there's some migration
> > tool like that ?
>
> For mandriva 2007, it seems that the same convmv can be applied.
> Mandriva provide also a script at the address:
> http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrivaLinux2007Errata#UTF8_iss
>ue_when_reinstalling_and (and there is a french page to explain how to
> convert the filename ant the content of the file:
> http://sebdeblinux.free.fr/)
>

Thanks fo these links Michel. 

Fabien UTF-8 migration is very important. We need to write in web site and 
source code package a notice about to do it. Please let's me hear when you 
will add explanations on web site, i will include this content on source code 
tarball.

Gilles