UTFEightMigrationTool
Current status
As of Hoary, there is now a package called "utf8-migration-tool". Install it and run the command ""utf8migrationtool"". It changes the users default login locale. Additionally, it searches for files in the users home directory with 8-bit characters and transforms them to utf-8.
Goals
The migration tool should guide the user through the following tasks:
- Explaining the migration process to the user
- Setting the system default locale to the corresponding UTF-8 locale
- Searching the user's home directory for 8-bit filenames, and offering to convert them from legacy encoding to UTF-8 encoding
- Anything else?
Note that users will probably want to wait until they're sure that UTF-8 works before disabling legacy locales.
A good way for this tool to be run would be via InteractiveUpgradeHooks
Other tools
- How do you rename filenames automatically to UTF-8 outside you home directory?
- How do you transform textfiles that contain 8-bit characters into UTF-8?
Comments
From PaulBoddie Sun Apr 17 14:23:31 +0100 2005 From: Paul Boddie Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:23:31 +0100 Subject: Keeping non-UTF-8 locales Message-ID: <20050417142331+0100@www.ubuntulinux.org>
It might be a good idea to let the user keep using non-UTF-8 locales when installing in normal mode. If Kubuntu 5.04's installer had "remembered" that Ubuntu 4.10 was on the disk (beyond bootloader considerations), it could have deduced that switching to UTF-8 locales might have had undesirable side-effects.