Converting all files to UTF-8 ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

Trying to get my CD burner today, revealed that the system doesn't quite
like running  UTF-8 (switched recently) when the files are still using
the previous format (whatever that was, don't have a clue)

So, I am would like to convert all my file names to UTF-8 so that,
hopefully, everything will go smoothly afterwards.

I read recently on this list about "iconv". I read the man page, then
tried it a single file, like this:

'iconv -t UTF-8 filename'

But it returns the error : "Illegal escape sequence at position 0".
It's translater from French, so please feel free to interpret it so
that, hopefully, it means something. ;-)
I tried that on several mp3 files and it keeps returning that error.

Any idea ? Or any other prgram I could use, to convert the thousand
files in my /home partition ???

Vince