[Digikam-users] utf-8

[Fabien]

Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I'll do that soon. Can some people using Suse or Fedora Core check 
  what tools are available in their distribution for utf-8 migration ?

--
Fabien