Convert file names to a different encoding with convmv
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By Manolis Tzanidakis on December 11, 2006
Recent versions of most Linux distributions support non-English languagesout of the box by using the Unicode standard. I was pleasantly surprisedwhen I found out that I was able to read and write in Greek — my nativelanguage — on a fresh Ubuntu Edgy Eft installation without any manualintervention.
Unfortunately, my happiness lasted only until I tried to open files withGreek file names. Instead of Greek characters I saw garbage. I've been usingthe 8-bit ISO 8859-7 encoding for Greek file names, and since it worked wellI was too lazy to convert my systems to Unicode. Manually renaming hundredsof files in order to convert them to Unicode was not an option; I neededsome kind of automation. Convmv is the right tool for that job.
Convmv is a Perl program that converts file names and directories betweendifferent character encodings. It converts only the file names, not thecontent of the files, and can also convert a whole filesystem, includingsymlinks. Most Linux distributions offer packages for convmv, and you canalso find it in the FreeBSD ports and NetBSD pkgsrc. Manual installation isfairly easy since the program depends only on Perl, which is installed bydefault on virtually all Linux distributions and BSD variants; running makeinstall will install the program in /usr/local/bin and its man page in/usr/local/share/man/man1.
Running convmv without any arguments prints the list of all availableoptions. All options are explained in detail in the program's man page.
Let's start by running convmv —list to display the supported encodings. Toconvert all Ogg/Vorbis files in the current directory from ISO 8859-7 toUTF-8 (Unicode) run convmv -f iso-8859-7 -t utf8 *.ogg. This command willnot actually rename the files — it just prints what it should do. To renamethe files, add the —notest option. If you want the program to ask forconfirmation before any action, add the -i option to enable interactivemode.
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By default the program checks whether the file names you want to rename arealready using the specified encoding and skips them accordingly. Althoughyou can speed up the whole process by disabling this feature with the—nosmart switch, it's better not to, since it could lead to'double-encoded' file names with incorrect characters. Nevertheless, the manpage has a section on how to repair double-encoded files. The program willalso stop if you try to rename a file by giving it a name with the targetencoding that already exists on the same path. You can however use the—replace switch to have that file overwritten in case its content is thesame as that of the original file.
After making sure that your options work correctly, it's time to convert thewhole filesystem to UTF-8 with a single command. We will also add the -rswitch, which enables recursive mode. For example, issue convmv -fiso-8859-7 -t utf8 -r —notest —replace ~/data to convert all the files anddirectories inside the data directory in your home from ISO 8859-7 toUTF-8. You can also use convmv to convert file names to all upper or lowercase with the —upper and —lower options respectively. If the file is notASCII-encoded you must also supply its encoding with the -f switch.
Besides the conversion to Unicode, convmv can be useful when you need toexchange files with users of obsolete operating systems that have no supportfor the Unicode charset, such as Windows 98 or older versions ofLinux. Speaking of cross-platform interoperability, Mac OS X has a strangeway of handling Unicode-encoded file names. Linux and most other Unix-likeOS use the C normalization form (NFC) for encoding to UTF-8, while OS X usesNFD. Convmv can convert file names between these two standards with the—nfc and —nfd switches. You might face similar issues with the JFS and NFSv4 file systems; check the convmv man page for more information.
Convmv made my transition to Unicode as painless as possible. It convertedall my files while I was making a cup of coffee, giving me plenty of time toplay with the new version of Ubuntu.
documented on: 2007-09-15
convmv: converts filenames from one encoding to another
Command to display
convmv
manual in Linux: $ man 1 convmv
NAME
convmv - converts filenames from one encoding to another
SYNOPSIS
convmv [options] FILE(S) .. DIRECTORY(S)OPTIONS
Example:
convmv -f latin1 -t utf-8 -r --exec ``echo #1 should be renamed to #2' path/to/files
By the way: The superscript dot of the letter i was added in the Middle Ages todistinguish the letter (in manuscripts) from adjacent vertical strokes in suchletters as u, m, and n. J is a variant form of i which emerged at this time andsubsequently became a separate letter. Strictly breaks torrent.
DESCRIPTION
convmv is meant to help convert a single filename, a directory tree and thecontained files or a whole filesystem into a different encoding. It justconverts the filenames, not the content of the files. A special feature ofconvmv is that it also takes care of symlinks, also converts the symlink targetpointer in case the symlink target is being converted, too.All this comes in very handy when one wants to switch over from old 8-bitlocales to UTF-8 locales. It is also possible to convert directories to UTF-8which are already partly UTF-8 encoded. convmv is able to detect if certainfiles are UTF-8 encoded and will skip them by default. To turn this smartnessoff use the '--nosmart' switch.
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Filesystem issues
Almost all POSIX filesystems do not care about how filenames are encoded, hereare some exceptions:HFS+ on OS X / Darwin
Linux and (most?) other Unix-like operating systems use the so callednormalization form C (NFC) for its UTF-8 encoding by default but do not enforcethis. Darwin, the base of the Macintosh OS enforces normalization form D(NFD), where a few characters are encoded in a different way. On OS X it's notpossible to create NFC UTF-8 filenames because this is prevented at filesystemlayer. On HFS+ filenames are internally stored in UTF-16 and when convertedback to UTF-8, for the underlying BSD system to be handable, NFD is created.See http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1173.html for defails. I think itwas a very bad idea and breaks many things under OS X which expect a normalPOSIX conforming system. Anywhere else convmv is able to convert files from NFCto NFD or vice versa which makes interoperability with such systems a loteasier.
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JFS
If people mount JFS partitions with iocharset=utf8, there is a similar problem,because JFS is designed to store filenames internally in UTF-16, too; that isbecause Linux' JFS is really JFS2, which was a rewrite of JFS for OS/2. JFSpartitions should always be mounted with iocharset=iso8859-1, which is also thedefault with recent 2.6.6 kernels. If this is not done, JFS does not behavelike a POSIX filesystem and it might happen that certain files cannot becreated at all, for example filenames in ISO-8859-1 encoding. Only wheninteroperation with OS/2 is needed iocharset should be set according to yourused locale charmap.
NFS4
Despite other POSIX filesystems RFC3530 (NFS 4) mandates UTF-8 but also says:``The nfs4_cs_prep profile does not specify a normalization form. A laterrevision of this specification may specify a particular normalization form.' Inother words, if you want to use NFS4 you might find the conversion andnormalization features of convmv quite useful.
FAT/VFAT and NTFS
NTFS and VFAT (for long filenames) use UTF-16 internally to store filenames.You should not need to convert filenames if you mount one of those filesystems.Use appropriate mount options instead!
How to undo double UTF-8 (or other) encoded filenames
Sometimes it might happen that you ``double-encoded' certain filenames, forexample the file names already were UTF-8 encoded and you accidently didanother conversion from some charset to UTF-8. You can simply undo that byconverting that the other way round. The from-charset has to be UTF-8 and theto-charset has to be the from-charset you previously accidently used. If youuse the '--fixdouble'Convmv Mac Brew
option convmv will make sure that only files will beprocessed that will still be UTF-8 encoded after conversion and it will leavenon-UTF-8 files untouched. You should check to get the correct results by doingthe conversion without '--notest' before, also the '--qfrom' option might behelpful, because the double utf-8 file names might screw up your terminal ifthey are being printed - they often contain control sequences which do funnythings with your terminal window. If you are not sure about the charset whichwas accidently converted from, using '--qfrom' is a good way to fiddle out therequired encoding without destroying the file names finally.How to repair Samba files
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By the way: Samba 3.x finally maps to UTF-8 filenames by default, so also whenyou migrate from Samba 2 to Samba 3 you might have to convert your file names.
Netatalk interoperability issues
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When Netatalk is being switched to UTF-8 which is supported in version 2 thenit is NOT sufficient to rename the file names. There needs to be done more. Seehttp://netatalk.sourceforge.net/2.0/htmldocs/upgrade.html#volumes-and-filenamesand the uniconv utility of Netatalk for details.BUGS
no bugs or fleas knownConvmv For Macbook Air
AUTHOR
Bjoern JACKESend mail to bjoern [at] j3e.de for bug reports and suggestions.
SEE ALSO
locale(1) utf-8(7) charsets(7)Pages related to convmv
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