Stefan Sperling, 29 Nov 2014 18:17:
> > Are you aware of 'detox' package?
> 
> There's also converters/convmv

$ touch »´ÁÉǑÄ«
$ convmv *
wrong/unknown "from" encoding!
$ convmv -f utf8 -t latin1 *
Starting a dry run without changes...
iso-8859-1 doesn't cover all needed characters for: "./»´ÁÉǑÄ«"
To prevent damage to your files, we won't continue.
First fix this or correct options!


convmv is a precision tool.  it needs to know the
source and target encoding, and is very careful.

in contrast my tool is much more blunt, because i dont care
about an exact 1:1 mapping as on my disks punctuation and
diacritics are not welcome.

-f
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