James Wilkinson wrote:
At a quick look, iconv helps to convert file contents; see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100934 for help on transliterating filenames.
Thanks for the very useful explanation. I downloaded convmv from here
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1004557/com/convmv-1.07-1.noarch.rpm.html
and am experimenting with it.
The sooner we all convert to Unicode the better!