Re: [BackupPC-devel] Problem with some accents

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Rodrigo Real writes:

> I found one more bug, pretty the same, but in another file.
>=20
> The same problem was ocurring when I tried to restore any file inside
> a directory with accents in its name. I followed the same logic and
> the patch below seemed to solve that.

Thanks, you're right.  I've added your patch.

I'm going to do some more testing of rsync/rsyncd/smb/tar restore
and also test backup with sharename/exclude/include settings that
have non-ascii characters.  As Vincent notes there are likely
some combinations that don't work because of a missing charset
conversion.

Here's some background to the other readers on this list on what has
changed here.  In 2.x BackupPC didn't know about the client's file name
character encoding.  Although the round-trip backup/restore worked
(since the same sequence of bytes in each file name was delivered during
restore), the file names often would not be displayed correctly, and
it was problematic to support share names, include and exclude file
lists with the right character encoding.

In 3.x the server does everything in utf8 and conversion to/from
the clients charset is done during backup and restore.  What we're
debugging is making sure all the cases have the correct coversion.

Craig