Accented characters are now shown correctly on Thunar and on Terminal

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it> wrote:
>>> Thanks, Roberto. I get everything correct, likewise what you get. The
>>> problem occurs with directories that I brought in from previous Fedora
>>> installations. For example, I get the following in Thunar:
>>>
>>> Estat�stica (invalid encoding)
>>>
>>
>> yum info convmv fuse-convmvfs
>> yum install convmv fuse-convmvfs
>> man convmv
>> less /usr/share/doc/fuse-convmvfs-0.2.6/README
>
> This is the right suggestion.
>
> Try this:
>
> ls -l /yourdir |iconv -f iso88591 -t utf8
>
> and check if your filenames show up ok. If not, try with cp1252 instead of iso88591.
>
> After you have discovered your previous encoding, use the convmv command
> to rename the files.
>
> Do not run convmv if you are not sure the source encoding (-f) is right, you
> can make things more messy than they are.
> Use the iconv trick to verify before running convmv.
>
> (Let me guess, your files have been moved through a FAT filesystem, e.g. usb key?)


Thanks for all replies. Indeed, the mentioned directory was created
originally on a MS Windows machine and copied afterwards to a Linux
system.

I hope to be able to convert the original filename encoding to a more
Linux friendly one with convmv.

Paul