Most recent operating systems store filename using UTF-8 character sets to make it support multiple character encodings. In some rare cases, you may get files with incorrect charset in the name, e.g., my laptop, Ubuntu Edgy, runs UTF-8 but I receive a zipped file containing files with TIS-620 charset in their name. I need to rename these files to correct charset. I found a good solution called convmv.

If I'm not wrong, it was written in Perl so it should be portable to all platforms.

Tags: ubuntu, character set, convmv