On Thursday 12 April 2007 13:31, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Just for the records: > > On 4/11/2007 6:15 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > ... > >> As you can see, the german umlaut ü "Startmenü" has been converted to a > >> 2-byte UTF8 encoded character in the restoration path. > >> > >> Thanks a lot for any help! > > > > I suspect that you are not running UTF-8 on your Bacula server. As the manual > > indicates (some place), you need to have your LANG environment variable set > > correctly for Bacula. It must be something of the order: > > > > en_US.UTF-8 > > > > but adjusted for German (probably de_DE.UTF-8). Or you have a PostgreSQL > > database and it is not running in UTF-8 mode ... > > I can confirm that Bacula itself handles umlauts correctly (probably utf > and windows charsets in general). > > I used verified this after a normal test restore of my windows laptop > where the file Büro.ovpn was restored with the correct name. > > During job setup in wx-console, the 'ü' was misprinted as two strange > characters, though. > > I never really understood the character coding Bacula does or does not; > I simply assume it handles it transparently, and I think the windows FD > does some translation.
Unix versions of Bacula use UTF-8. The Win32 FD uses Unicode, but knows how to translate Unicode back and forth to UTF-8 when dealing with the SD and DIR. I don't know how the Win32 DIR and SD deal with characters ... presumably in UTF-8. > > As long as your catalog database handles strings or blobs either > transparently, or according to Baculas character coding, things should work. > > Displaying in wx-console seems a minor problem. > > Arno > > >> -- > >> Regards > >> Christoph > >> ________________________________________________________________________ > >> Christoph Litauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Uni Koblenz, Computing Center, http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~litauer > >> Postfach 201602, 56016 Koblenz Fon: +49 261 287-1311, Fax: -100 1311 > >> PGP-Fingerprint: F39C E314 2650 650D 8092 9514 3A56 FBD8 79E3 27B2 > >> > >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > -- > IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
