SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for IBM® zSeries® Service Pack 2

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convmv
converts file names from one encoding to another

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
Release: 53.2
Medium: CD2
Path: /suse/noarch/convmv-1.07-53.2.noarch.rpm
Group: Productivity/File
License: GPL
Size: 45 KB
Homepage: http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/

File list 

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root            20439 May 23 23:47 /usr/bin/convmv
drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root                0 May 23 23:47 /usr/share/doc/packages/convmv
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             1594 Dec 14  2003 /usr/share/doc/packages/convmv/Changes
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root            17993 Jul 12  2003 /usr/share/doc/packages/convmv/GPL2
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root              633 Dec 30  2003 /usr/share/doc/packages/convmv/MD5sums
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root                5 Dec 30  2003 /usr/share/doc/packages/convmv/VERSION
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             4937 May 23 23:47 /usr/share/man/man1/convmv.1.gz

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