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I am, in a weird way, quite proud of this hideous abomination: pushd doc # italian is already unicode, leave it out. for i in es hu pl ru sr; do pushd $i; \ # this is ugly, but assume same encoding as .po file for each language. iconv --from-code=`grep charset= ../../po/$i.po | cut -c36- | head -c-4 | tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]"` --to-code=UTF-8 mc.1.in > mc.1.in.new; \ mv -f mc.1.in.new mc.1.in; popd; done popd pushd lib # rename zh to zh_TW, which is what it really is (I think) mv mc.hint.zh mc.hint.zh_TW # hardcode the list as we need to leave italian out and it just gets ugly doing it 'smartly'... for i in cs es hu nl pl ru sr uk zh_TW; \ # this is ugly, but assume same encoding as .po file for each language. do iconv --from-code=`grep charset= ../po/$i.po | cut -c36- | head -c-4 | tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]"` --to-code=UTF-8 mc.hint.$i > mc.hint.$i.new; \ mv -f mc.hint.$i.new mc.hint.$i; done popd pushd po # remove the original .mo files rm -f *.gmo # find stuff that's not Unicode already for i in `file *.po | grep -v Unicode | cut -d: -f1`; \ # convert it: the grep, cut, head, tr grabs the source encoding from the .po file header, there's no other way to find it do iconv --from-code=`grep charset= $i | cut -c36- | head -c-4 | tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]"` --to-code=UTF-8 $i > $i.new; \ # change the header to say UTF-8 mv -f $i.new $i; perl -pi -e 's,charset=.*$,charset=UTF-8\\n",g' $i; done # regenerate the .mo files for i in `ls *.po | cut -d. -f1`; do /usr/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics -o $i.gmo $i.po; done popd that's what you need to do to convert all of mc's documentation, help files etc to Unicode when packaging it. Elegance, I've heard of it...