Re: JFS default behavior (was: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.)

Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-16T15:44:14Z

On Monday 16 February 2004 15.03, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> I know what you mean and that is why I already proposed a radical
> solution. Let me repeat it:
>
> - convert all files from the previous charset to UTF-8 overnight
> if the previous charset was unknown, first make sure that you can
> guess it for all users and contact users that have files with
> suspicous filenames (eg. not convertable from Latin1). Or look trough
> their shell/X config files (*)

Thankfully isolatin-1 (and all other encodings in use AFAIK) can be converted to UTF-8.
IsoLatin1 is also extremly simpe to convert-

-- robin