Thanks for your answers,

My locales are en_US.UTF-8, the PostgreSQL database is in UTF-8 too 
(fresh install) .. everything is in UTF-8
What do you mean by "the filenames have to be UTF-8 to work" ? Setting 
en_US.UTF-8 for the locales isn't enough ?


Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> (...)
>>>
>>> Does bacula support UTF-8 ?
>>>       
>> Yes, but there are problems with PostgreSQL. I assume that 
>> these problems are due to the fact that users can create or 
>> have created non-UTF-8 filenames, but I am not sure.
>>     
>
> They are. PostgreSQL will validate that input into a UTF-8 database is
> actually UTF-8, and since bacula performs no conversion of character
> sets, the filenames have to be UTF-8 to work.
>
> You can switch the datbase to SQL_ASCII instead of UTF-8 to get rid of
> this verification. This will of course get rid of things like encoding
> specific sorting as well,b ut there is no way to deliver that properly
> for invalidly encoded data anyway.
>
>
>   
>> Note, Bacula consoles display/input characters correctly 
>> (WYSIWYG) *only* if everything is UTF-8 (on *nix machines). 
>>     
>
> Doesn't it display it correctly as long as the encoding that bacula runs
> under is the same as the file? I think that's what I've been seeing, but
> I could be remembering wrong.
>
> Meaning if you run the console on the same machine that files are on,
> the filenames should look the same?
>
> //Magnus
>   


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