Some time ago I had posted about converting filename character encoding with convmv. Well a recent bit of problem solving over mismatched file encoding led to the discovery of another conversion tool, iconv. This converts the file's contents, and supports a huge number of encoding sets. The happy part in this story, for me anyway, is that it's also a default inclusion in OSX. This means I can build a small shell script to do what I need instead of resorting to applescript *shudder*. Each time I avoid the translation to POSIX paths the happier it makes me.