International Chars cause backup problems

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Tue Mar 14 11:31:04 UTC 2006


On Monday 13 March 2006 20:25, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:01 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I have a number of files on my server that have international
> > characters in their names.  My backups are constantly failing, with
> > errors like this:
> >
> > Incorrectly encoded string (Soy Loco por Ti, América) encountered.
> > Possibly creating an invalid Joliet extension. Aborting.
>
> I thought Fedora would be using UTF-8 by default, so everything should
> be the same.  If you're mounting different file systems using different
> character encoding schemes, then you probably need to adjust how things
> are mounted and fix them up as the files come in and go out.
>
Tim, I'm sure you know much more about this than I do, but I think what really 
matters as far as things working is what character set was in use when the 
file was original written/named.  Some of these files have been around for 3 
years or more, and in that time I have used ISO8859-1 and ISO8859-15 as well 
as, more recently, utf8.

I don't have many files that are named with the problematic 'foreign' 
characters, but I still plan to try converting one directory entirely to utf8 
and burning it to disk, to see whether windows can read it properly.  I don't 
think there will be problems, but if there are, we need to know.  If you can 
think of other tests I should do, please tell me.  I'll try to spend some 
time on this, this evening.

Anne
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