Re: how to find the current encoding of filenames

Rafal M <rafalm1980_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
Given a bunch of files (copied from a Fedora core 1 machine to a Debian Etch
machine) how can I determine the encoding used for the filenames?

thanks
raju


probably UTF-8 (this is standard)

Fedora core 1 is an old system, and I guess the right one should be
the most frequently-used encoding in your country.

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