[gentoo-user] rename files in another charset

[Zhang Weiwu]

Hello. I have 1000+ files whoes filenames are encoded in GB18030 charset 
right now. But my current system locale is set to zh_CN.UTF-8 and I wish 
to keep my locale. Here comes the problem of renaming each of them.

The only way I think of is to write a script:
#!/bin/sh
# this is gb2utf.sh
mv "$*" "`echo $* | iconv -f GB18030 -t UTF-8 `"
And process these files:
$find /files_with_gb18030_filenames -print0 | xargs -n 1 -0 gb2utf.sh
Now, before I process any file, I know this is not recoverable 
operation, I wonder if anyone can see a mistakes in my code. And, is my 
way the best way? I think perhaps there are existing program/script to 
do this kind of job, only I didn't find it out.

Thank you.
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