Novell Linux Desktop 9
package descriptions
convmv
converts file names from one encoding to another
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convmv is meant to help convert a directory tree and the contained files or a whole filesystem into a different encoding. It just converts the filenames, not the content of the files. A special feature of convmv is that it also takes care of symlinks, also converts the symlink target pointer in case the symlink target is being converted, too. All this comes in very handy when one wants to switch over from old 8bit locales to UTF-8 locales. It is also possible to convert directories to UTF-8 which are already partly UTF-8 encoded. convmv is able to detect if certain files are UTF-8 encoded and will skip them by default. To turn this smartness off use the --nosmart switch. An interoperability issue that comes with UTF-8 locales is this: Linux and (most?) other Unix-like operating systems use the so called normalization form C (NFC) for its UTF-8 encoding by default but do not enforce this. Darwin, the base of the Macintosh OS enforces normalization form D (NFD), where a few characters are encoded in a different way. convmv is able to convert files to NFC or NFD which makes interoperability to such systems a lot easier. |
| Version: | 1.07 |
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| Release: | 53.1 |
| Medium: | DVD1 |
| Path: | /suse/noarch/convmv-1.07-53.1.noarch.rpm |
| Group: | Productivity/File |
| License: | GPL |
| Size: | 45 KB |
| Homepage: | http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/ |
File list
-rwxr-xr-x root root 20439 Aug 25 17:13 /usr/bin/convmv drwxr-xr-x root root 144 Aug 25 17:13 /usr/share/doc/packages/convmv -rw-r--r-- root root 1594 Dec 14 2003 /usr/share/doc/packages/convmv/Changes -rw-r--r-- root root 17993 Jul 12 2003 /usr/share/doc/packages/convmv/GPL2 -rw-r--r-- root root 633 Dec 30 2003 /usr/share/doc/packages/convmv/MD5sums -rw-r--r-- root root 5 Dec 30 2003 /usr/share/doc/packages/convmv/VERSION -rw-r--r-- root root 4940 Aug 25 17:13 /usr/share/man/man1/convmv.1.gz