So what to do with Unicode filenames?

Stuart Halliday StuartH at ecs-tech.com
Mon Mar 20 10:57:11 GMT 2006


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
ECS Technology ltd
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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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