So what to do with Unicode filenames?

Shachar Shemesh shachar at lingnu.com
Mon Mar 20 20:47:36 GMT 2006


Stuart Halliday wrote:

>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?
>  
>
If you want to maintain rsync's network efficiency, don't use Zip.
Rather, use tar+gzip that has the "--rsyncable" patch.

       Shachar

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