"file has vanished" Chinese characters...

[Tevfik Karagülle]

Hi,

There is a UTF-8 patched cygwin available from
http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/download.html

I haven't used it. Maybe it is worth to try :-)

Rgrds Tev


Background info:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&u=http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/c
ygwin-20.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00068.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2002-q3/msg00037.html 
http://www.itefix.no/phpws/index.php?module=phpwsbb&PHPWSBB_MAN_OP=view&PHPW
S_MAN_ITEMS[]=396

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsync-bounces+tevfik=itefix.no at lists.samba.org 
> [mailto:rsync-bounces+tevfik=itefix.no at lists.samba.org] On 
> Behalf Of Peter
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 5:08 AM
> To: Tony at ServaCorp.com; Wayne Davison
> Cc: rsync at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: "file has vanished" Chinese characters...
> 
> 
> --- Tony at ServaCorp.com wrote:
> 
> > This is entirely guesswork, but maybe, just maybe ....
> > >From something unixy, do an smb mount of the Windows share
> > (Cygwin does the incredible, but it's still not unix) There is 
> > probably some kind of option so that you see the filenames 
> and do the 
> > rsync from the unixy side.
> > I think I ran into it doing something with Knoppix and mounting an 
> > NTFS partition with chinese characters in it.
> > I'm guessing that there is a similar option somewhere on the Samba 
> > side.
> > something like -o unicode for smbmount might help.
> > Looks like there's iocharset= and codepage=
> > 
> > Good Luck.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: rsync-bounces+tony=servacorp.com at lists.samba.org
> > > [mailto:rsync-bounces+tony=servacorp.com at lists.samba.org]On Behalf
> > Of
> > > Peter
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:18 PM
> > > To: Wayne Davison
> > > Cc: rsync at lists.samba.org
> > > Subject: Re: "file has vanished" Chinese characters...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- Wayne Davison <wayned at samba.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:27:50AM -0400, Peter wrote:
> > > > > During a synchronization I get many "file has vanished"
> > > > > messages; the filename contains question marks.
> > > > 
> > > > This cygwin/Windows induced bug has come up before.  One
> > potentially
> > > > useful older message:
> > > > 
> > > >     http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2005-May/012638.html
> > > > 
> > > > The root of the problem is that Windows is lying to rsync about
> > what
> > > > the
> > > > filenames are, and no one has offered some advice on how to make
> > the
> > > > lying stop (universally).
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > Looks like I'm at the end of the road on this one.  You 
> would think 
> > > that we could figure out a workaround.
> 
> Well I'm using neither Samba nor Cygwin but cwRsync.  The 
> WinXP users are initiating backups/synchronizations to a 
> server at their discretion via a simple Windows batch 
> file/script.  Although I am using Samba as a basic fileserver.
> 
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