On 2009/12/27 7:56 PM, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote, on 12/27/2009 10:41 PM: >> I'm running cygwin on a WinXP system with an NTFS-formatted drive. I >> have a script that regularly backs up using rsync onto a Linux system >> (Debian) with an ext3 drive. >> >> Before the recent major upgrade, all extended ASCII characters were >> preserved perfectly without any special rsync switches. E.g., é stayed >> as é (assuming that character will survive this mailing list post -- >> accented e). >> >> Now, all accented characters appear as ? on the target linux system. > > Actually, this is a little more complicated than I thought. When I mount > the rsync target linux drive as a Samba share from the WinXP box, the > files appear to have the correct accents on the destination. But when I > view them from the linux box, they have scrambled accents -- either just > ?'s if I use ls (must be a terminal issue), or different nonstandard > characters that aren't the right extended characters if I redirect the > output to a file and then view that. > > I'm just trying to get back the behavior from before the upgrade. Thanks > for any suggestions.
Assuming you upgraded from 1.5.x to 1.7.1, Cygwin has new default locale/charset settings that affect filename handling. Have a look at the Cygwin User Guide, specifically the page on Internationalization, here: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html I'm not sure what the default locale/charset was for 1.5.x, but for 1.7.1, it is "C.UTF-8". You may be able to get the old behaviour back by setting LANG (or LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE) in Cygwin to match the locale/charset of your Linux system. -SM -- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
