Ubuntu filename encoding - UTF8?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 20:39 -0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> 
> Hoary does use UTF8 by default. Check output of locale command: if it
> shows something like 
> 
> hu.UTF8, you know your locale is utf8.

UTF8 is only the default on new Hoary installs. If it was upgraded from
Warty, it will not switch automatically (too much can go wrong). Check
the Wiki for info what to do if you want to convert. Basically you have
to do "sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales", and change the locales. You have
to mount your windows partition with the utf8 option. And you may have
to convert your filenames in $HOME. There is a package
"utf8-migration-tool" that should have been included in the Hoary
release, but was not ready in time. You can use this to convert your
filnames to UTF8. Don't know if it works yet