diff --git a/sanitize_umlauts/sanitize_umlauts b/sanitize_umlauts/sanitize_umlauts
index 1140b7d..5415718 100755
--- a/sanitize_umlauts/sanitize_umlauts
+++ b/sanitize_umlauts/sanitize_umlauts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
 #
-# $Id: sanitize_umlauts,v 1.1 2002-10-27 12:28:59 hjp Exp $
+# $Id: sanitize_umlauts,v 1.2 2006-03-08 18:08:52 hjp Exp $
 #
 
 use strict;
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ use File::Find;
 
 sub wanted {
 
-    if (/[\204\224\201\216\231\232\341\202]/) {
+    if (/[\204\224\201\216\231\232\202]/) {
 	my $new = $_;
-	$new =~ tr/\204\224\201\216\231\232\341\202/äöüÄÖÜßé/;
+	$new =~ tr/\204\224\201\216\231\232\202/äöüÄÖÜé/;
         print $File::Find::dir, ": $_ -> $new\n";
 	rename $_, $new or die "cannot rename $_ to $new: $!";
     }
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ print "\n\n";
 
 
 # $Log: sanitize_umlauts,v $
-# Revision 1.1  2002-10-27 12:28:59  hjp
+# Revision 1.2  2006-03-08 18:08:52  hjp
+# Removed szlig conversion. Too dangerous as \341 is a valid character in
+# latin-1, too.
+#
+# Revision 1.1  2002/10/27 12:28:59  hjp
 # *** empty log message ***
 #
diff --git a/sanitize_umlauts/sanitize_umlauts_utf8 b/sanitize_umlauts/sanitize_umlauts_utf8
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..06139b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sanitize_umlauts/sanitize_umlauts_utf8
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#
+# $Id: sanitize_umlauts_utf8,v 1.1 2006-03-08 18:08:52 hjp Exp $
+#
+
+use strict;
+use File::Find;
+use Encode;
+
+binmode STDOUT, ":raw";
+
+my %ex = (
+    "\204" => "ä",
+    "\224" => "ö",
+    "\201" => "ü",
+    "\216" => "Ä",
+    "\231" => "Ö",
+    "\232" => "Ü",
+    "\202" => "é",
+);
+
+sub wanted {
+
+    eval {
+        decode("utf-8", $_, 1);
+    };
+    if ($@) {
+        my $new = "";
+        for (split(//, $_)) {
+            if (ord ($_) >= 0x0021 && ord($_) <= 0x007E) {
+                $new .= $_;
+            } else {
+                if (defined $ex{$_}) {
+                    $new .= $ex{$_};
+                } else {
+                    $new .= $_;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        $new = encode("utf-8", $new);
+        print $File::Find::dir, ": $_ -> $new\n";
+	rename $_, $new or die "cannot rename $_ to $new: $!";
+    }
+
+
+#    if (/[\204\224\201\216\231\232\341\202]/) {
+#	my $new = $_;
+#	$new =~ tr/\204\224\201\216\231\232\341\202/äöüÄÖÜßé/;
+#    }
+}
+
+
+
+if (@ARGV == 0) { push (@ARGV, "."); }
+finddepth(\&wanted, @ARGV);
+
+print "\n\n";
+
+
+# $Log: sanitize_umlauts_utf8,v $
+# Revision 1.1  2006-03-08 18:08:52  hjp
+# Removed szlig conversion. Too dangerous as \341 is a valid character in
+# latin-1, too.
+#
+# Revision 1.1  2002/10/27 12:28:59  hjp
+# *** empty log message ***
+#
+# vim:sw=4 expandtab
+