On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, Mueller-Lynch Thomas wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm using rsync for synchronizing files between two web servers. Some of the
>filenames which we synchronize have german umlauts (äöüß) and blanks. After
>synchronizing these files the filenames have been switched.
>
>I'm not sure if you can see the german umlauts in this mail. For example ä is a
>special character in the german language - it is an 'a' with two dots at the top.
>(Sorry about my English)
>
>For example:
>original filename: änderung.htm
>filename after rsync: |nderung.htm
>
>This is fatal, because the links won't work.
>
>My inviroment:
>
>Verson of rsync: 2.1.1
>Operation system: Windows NT
>
>Has someone an idea?
It looks like rsync is confusing the Unicode character set (used for long
filenames; ä is 0x00e4) with the character set used in DOS, which is used for
short file names. What happens when you rsync a file with a name longer than
8.3?
phma
