On Monday 13 March 2006 20:25, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:01 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I have a number of files on my server that have international > > characters in their names. My backups are constantly failing, with > > errors like this: > > > > Incorrectly encoded string (Soy Loco por Ti, América) encountered. > > Possibly creating an invalid Joliet extension. Aborting. > > I thought Fedora would be using UTF-8 by default, so everything should > be the same. If you're mounting different file systems using different > character encoding schemes, then you probably need to adjust how things > are mounted and fix them up as the files come in and go out. > Tim, I'm sure you know much more about this than I do, but I think what really matters as far as things working is what character set was in use when the file was original written/named. Some of these files have been around for 3 years or more, and in that time I have used ISO8859-1 and ISO8859-15 as well as, more recently, utf8. I don't have many files that are named with the problematic 'foreign' characters, but I still plan to try converting one directory entirely to utf8 and burning it to disk, to see whether windows can read it properly. I don't think there will be problems, but if there are, we need to know. If you can think of other tests I should do, please tell me. I'll try to spend some time on this, this evening. Anne
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