File name encoding on Linux

Linux File Name Encoding

• check LANG environment variable
  • echo $LANG
• See also
  • How to tell the language encoding
  • Encoding of file names in Java

iocharset option of mount

iocharset=value
Character set to use for converting between 8 bit characters and 16 bit Unicode characters. 
The default is iso8859-1. Long filenames are stored on disk in Unicode format.

• See also
  • https://linux.die.net/man/8/mount

convmv - converts filenames from one encoding to another

• https://linux.die.net/man/1/convmv

See also

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16991263
• Detect file name encoding using python