So what to do with Unicode filenames?

[Georgy Goshin]

Seems that suggested Unison have the same problems with unicode filenames 
like rsync...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Halliday" <StuartH at ecs-tech.com>
To: <rsync at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: So what to do with Unicode filenames?


> Ah right I see now.
>
> I suggest you see if another similar product will perform better?
>
> Unison for example?
> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
>
>
> An alternative would be to zip the offending files first and name the zip
> file something safe, use rsync to transport them and unzip them at the
> other end?
>
>
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> Stuart Halliday
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shachar Shemesh <rsync at shemesh.biz>
> To: Stuart Halliday <StuartH at ecs-tech.com>
> Cc: rsync at lists.samba.org
> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:29:54 +0200
> Subject: Re: So what to do with Unicode filenames?
>
>> Stuart Halliday wrote:
>>
>> >As long as each machine is set to its own correct default language
>> >correctly then there isn't a problem I'm aware of.
>> >
>> >
>> But that's exactly what Georgy is complaining about. No amount of
>> default locale tricks will help you if some of your files are in
>> Spanish
>> and others are in Hebrew. If there was a way to get the file names in
>> UTF-8, you could use rsync still, but it seems that there is no way to
>> do it.
>>
>>
>> Pitty, really.
>>
>>
>>           Shachar
>>
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