Mike Fabian: > > I think it is better to use the filename-encoding-conversion tool > > "convmv" to fix the encoding *after* unpacking the archive. > > > > See: http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/ > > > > ("convmv" is already included in SuSE Linux).
Yes, indeed. Simos Xenitellis: > Thanks. > > Though you must agree that this does not follow the principle of "Just > works"; the GUI tool will not be able to do the work for them. Most > end-users will be in a "Am stuck&give up" situation. :( > > If we cannot solve it in a gracefull way, we might be able to put this > whole issue under the carpet if we identify that a very limited number > of end-users are really affected. Can we say that? People from distros, > do you have feedback on this? That is not the right question. I always hope that utilities leave my bits alone. Sometimes it takes hours to find out and repair the damage done by "helpful" utilities. "Just works" means in practice: we guess what the situation might be, and what the user might want, and do something without asking. Now we pray that the guess was right, otherwise we have destroyed his data. Andries -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
