It was suggested that I send you this report of my experience with convmv. Thanks for a great tool!
I tried 'convmv' and it worked great. One point to be aware of: I had two directory structures and it seems that one was in cp862 and one was in iso-8859-8
8859-8. At first I ran the same command on both directories:
convmv -r -f cp862 -t utf8 --nfc directory1
That worked fine for the cp862 encoded directory but it messed up the iso-
It means it's not that smart. I suggest you report it to the author. IMO, it should have done nothing.
Thanks for that feedback!
That's normal however. Smartness can only be achieved when some files are already utf-8 encoded. Smartness does not mean that convmv has a christal ball implemented ;-). 8-bit encodings can not be guessed, just a human being can see how the files are ocnverted correct. But that's also wh convmv by defaults does *nothing* and an additional --notest is needed to *do* somthing.
Cheers Bjoern
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