Re: Synchronizing between Windows and Linux: character encoding problem

From: Niels L. Ellegaard (gnalle_at_ruc.dk)
Date: 07/31/04

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Date: 31 Jul 2004 00:58:36 +0200

    Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org> writes:

    > Hello there!
    >
    > I am trying to synchronize files between a laptop running either Windows
    > XP or Debian and a Debian file server. I have tried rsync and unison on
    > the Linux install of the laptop and rsync (under Cygwin) on the Windows
    > install, but both were unable to transfer files with special characters
    > (here: German umlauts) correctly.

    I don't know if the following is helpful, but there was a related message
     in the unison yahoo group (I found it on google).
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unison-users/message/2616

    On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:49:09PM +0100, Nuno Ferreira wrote:
    > I'm trying to synchronize from windows 2000 to linux and I have problems
    > with non-ascii characters in filenames.
    [...]
    > It appears that the filenames are using utf8 on the linux side and
    > iso8859-15 or similar on the windows side and no conversion is made.
    > Is there a way to fix it in unison? Is it a bug?

    Windows provides two API for manipulating files: a 8-bit API where
    filenames are encoded in the current locale and a 16-bit API where
    filenames are encoded in Unicode (UTF-16). At the moment, Unison uses
    the 8-bit API, as this is what is provided by Ocaml under Windows. I
    think we should eventually switch to the Unicode API (or maybe allow
    to choose between the two APIs). However, this is a significant
    amount of work, and none of the Unison developpers are using
    Windows...

    -- Jerome
      

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