Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.0, rsyncd and UTF-8 support?

[Tomasz C. <ma...@wp...>]

Craig Barratt wrote:

(...)

>> There are also filenames written for example in Russian or Greek, or 
>> some other languages not covered by "cp1252".
>> In such cases, I get info that the "file has vanished", which is not 
>> really true.
>>
>> Is there a setting that will cover all languages?
>> The files in question can be read just fine on the Windows 2003 server.
> 
> This is a long-standing issue in cygwin or WinXX, not related to BackupPC.
> 
> The problem is that the sequence of bytes returned when a directory is
> read by rsync on cygwin don't allow you to open the file when you call
> open() with that same sequence of bytes.  So rsync reports the file as
> vanished, since it can't open it after reading the directory to get the
> file name.

It looks that the "UTF-8 Cygwin dll" would solve the issue?

http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/


I think I used it for some time, and didn't have these "file has 
vanished" problems.


I wonder if it's better to use with BackupPC than the original Cygwin 
dll (if one uses multiple international character in filenames)?


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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