Hey Ged, Thanks for your help On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 10:41 AM G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users < backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi there, > > On Wed, 2 Sep 2020, Mariano Aliaga wrote: > > ... > > tar:974 Fatal: Can't translate pathname './Ajuste Inflaci?n > A?o2019.xps' to UTF-8 > > ... > > ... So I wonder if this is a known bug, it's smbclient, backuppc, > > tar or what? Is there some known workaround? I'd appreciate any help > > you could give. > > I think it's a message from 'tar'. (That's because that's what it says. :) > Yeah, but as tar is "feeded" by smbclient, and similar errors where pointing to samba, I tried with that. > It's not what I'd call a bug, it's the unfortunate result of the many > changes to the capabilities of both utilties and filesystems over the > time that they've been in use. There can be ambiguities when strings > are translated between some character sets, and you really don't want > that kind of ambiguity in file names. > > What's your output from 'locale'? > This is for backuppc user now (but I tried en_US.UTF-8 and others): $ locale LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_TIME="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_ALL=es_ES.UTF-8 $ locale charmap UTF-8 Just a stab in the dark but you might try UTF-16, as mentioned here: > > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/tar-cant-translate-pathname.32262/ > > I tried but doesn't work (and doesn't seem to be valid on current FreeBSD's). No matter what locale I set, always get the same error: can't translate ... to UTF-8 > Life was so simple when everything was done with 7-bit ASCII codes... > So true > -- > > 73, > Ged. > Mariano
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