I'm running cygwin on a WinXP system with an NTFS-formatted drive. I
have a script that regularly backs up using rsync onto a Linux system
(Debian) with an ext3 drive.
Before the recent major upgrade, all extended ASCII characters were
preserved perfectly without any special rsync switches. E.g., é stayed
as é (assuming that character will survive this mailing list post --
accented e).
Now, all accented characters appear as ? on the target linux system.
I've tried various --iconv settings and none of them seem to work -- all
I get is more or fewer ?'s in place of the accented characters. In
particular, I've tried
--iconv=iso8859-1,utf-8
--iconv=iso8859-2,utf-8
--iconv=utf-8,utf-8
as well as no iconv setting at all. Also tried playing with LC_ALL but
no better luck.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Is this an rsync issue or a
cygwin issue? I understand cygwin 1.7 now supports UTF-8 by default so
in theory I should have fewer problems, not more. But I can't figure out
how to get the new rsync to preserve these characters across filesystems.
TIA.
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