Hi, I have a problem synchronizing a windows directory to a linux directory. The filenames on the windows machine have sometimes french characters with accents (quite usual for french language...). Rsync or the filesystem of the linux box can obviously not handle this character type and create filenames with unreadable symbols in it. After the first sync the files/folders with such characters can not be opened or edited. I use the newest rsync version on both systems, on windows the one which comes with the cygwin shell (2.5.5.2), on linux the one which comes with RedHat 8.0 (ver. 2.5.5). I also use ssh (openssh 3.4p1) for encryption but I don't think this is the cause. Anybody ever seen this kind of failure ? I there a chance to give rsync the correct codepage so it can transfer the files with correct names ? Thanks for your help Oliver Krehan