utf8migrationtool(1)

utf8migrationtool1

Utf-8 locale migration tool

Overview

utf8migrationtool is a wizard that simplifies upgrading a Debian system towards UTF-8 locales.

First it updates the login configuration (in ~/.dmrc) so the default locale uses UTF-8 encoding, then it checks every filename under the user's home directory and converts it to UTF-8 if needed. Note that it only affects filenames, not file contents.

Options

None.

Usage

utf8migrationtool is run from the Desktop Environment's menu.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 5.0–6.0
  2. 7–9

Authors

Tollef Fog Heen <[email protected]> created the utility in 2005.

Martin-Eric Racine <[email protected]> wrote this manual page and the desktop menu in 2006.

From utf8-migration-tool 0.5.9 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.