SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Service Pack 4 for IBM POWER
Package descriptions
convmv
converts file names from one encoding to another
Install date: (not installed) Build Host: sweetie.suse.de
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.
Except for packages subject to a commercial license, the license identified below is the license designated by the open source project.
| 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 2005 /usr/bin/convmv drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 23 2005 /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 2005 /usr/share/man/man1/convmv.1.gz