Please look at this
Can resolve our problem with characters ( Ç , ^ ~ ´ ` ¨ )
I found this system on the net….but I don’t know if working



Toll konwert
script to Konqueror (KDE) - ToUTF-8, kde-apps.org,
Requeremets Linux / KDE / Konqueror / recode

Convertion charset to UTF-8
caracteres encoding like ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, etc.
script to linux verify encodings files
another that converter to UTF-8.
Need konwert.
He uses option any/pt/all-test to discovery encodings

Script 1 - verify encoding
#!/bin/sh

if [ $# -lt 1 ] ; then
echo ""
echo " file dir .java "
exit 1
fi

find $1 -name \*.java -exec file {} \; | egrep -v 'ASCII|UTF' | while read s; do
ff=`echo $s | awk -F ':' '{print $1}'`;
file $ff;
echo " charset "; konwert any/pt/all-test $ff;
done

Script 2 – Convertion to UTF-8
#!/bin/sh

if [ $# -lt 1 ] ; then
echo ""
echo " file dir to convert .java to UTF-8"
exit 1
fi

find . -name \*.java -exec file {} \; | grep 8859 | while read s; do
ff=`echo $s | awk -F ':' '{print $1}'`;
konwert cp1252-utf8 -O $ff;
done