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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