File name conversions Windows Mac OS X

Hello!
I have just switch from Windows XP to Mac OS X. In fact, I did it two days ago, and I feel I am still mostly lost. I wonder if you can help with a newbie/switcher question:
I have moved all my files to the Mac, but I have notice that, though the file names are correct, the name of those files that were inside a ZIP show strange characters, and it is so for the non-English characters like áéíóúàèìòùñ etc.
I have noticed the same inside my txt files. Also, some punctuation marks do not show properly.
What is the explanation for this? Can it be solved? How could I do it?
Thank you all beforehand.

This is interesting, I believe I found what is an ASCII->Unicode file converter for OSX. It is a command-line tool, so you would need to know how to use terminal.
Go to this page and take a look:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=TECkitDownloads
The installer is:
TECkit version 2.2.1 for Mac OS X
Jonathan Kew, 2006-09-19
Download "TECkitinstaller2.2.1.tar.gz
I downloaded it and installed it, the command to launch it is:
/usr/local/bin/txtconv
which returns an instruction page. This looks like a document converter, not a filename converter.
I don't have any non-english files here so I can't test it, but maybe someone who knows more about command tools can help you more, like the UNIX forum on these boards.
PS:
I did tun the command on a test file like this:
/usr/local/bin/txtconv -i ~/testIN.txt -o ~/testOUT.txt
and it did create a new output file but no translated characters. If you would send a few files to my email address I'll mess with it for you.
See my profile for that address.

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