iconv

[Wayne Davison]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 07:19:14AM -0400, Robert DuToit wrote:
> A quick question. I tried --iconv=.  but it didn't seem to work for my
> friend with umlautes in his file names.

Perhaps the default character set isn't set right for those filenames.
You can always specify the charsets explicitly.

> In the archives I found  mention of a patch iconv.diff.  Is that
> necessary or is it now  included in the source - it wasn't in my
> latest atches directory? Rob

As mentioned in the NEWS file, the --iconv option was included in 3.0.0.

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