I thought the problem was that cygwin doesn't support unicode. See here: http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2002-September/003643.html
The post is rather old, but for whatever reason the cygwin folks haven't added unicode support. You'll also see this problem manifest itself as a limit in the path length that the cygwin compiled version of rsync supports. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
