rsync - Sep 2009 - rsync with danish chars in filename

Hi,

I have a Qnap NAS-219 used for storage, i have a Ubuntu 9.04 server
for backup. When rsync between them filenames containing ? have
problemes, the danish chars ? ? does not have any problems eventhough
its a special char like ? ? ?.

The log files state following:

file has vanished: "/M?deskabelon.doc"

where ? should be ?, and the file is stil at the system, so its not vanished.

The charset on NAS is: en_US.UTF-8
And backup-server is: en_DK.UTF-8

I know there is a difference but in the starting wizard at the nas, it
was the recommended charset used for danish language files.

And the problem had been more understandable if the charset was like:

The charset on NAS is: en_DK.UTF-8
And backup-server is: en_US.UTF-8

then the backup-server should not understand danish special chars like ? ? ?.

Hope someone can help me or give me a hint.

Best regards
Tomas

Hi Tomas
> file has vanished: "/M?deskabelon.doc"
I have had a similar problem, where the source file was not in the
correct encoding (used on the source).

So in my case, the filename on the source contained chars that was not
properly encoded in the source machine's encoding. (This was a Windows
server).
I don't know if this is the same situation, you are in.

Have you tried creating a new file on the source with a filename containing
'?'?



Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards
Thomas Damgaard Nielsen
http://thomasdamgaard.dk

Tomas Norre Mikkelsen (tnm.pohl at gmail.com) wrote on 17 September 2009 09:31:
 >I have a Qnap NAS-219 used for storage, i have a Ubuntu 9.04 server
 >for backup. When rsync between them filenames containing ? have
 >problemes, the danish chars ? ? does not have any problems eventhough
 >its a special char like ? ? ?.
 >
 >The log files state following:
 >
 >file has vanished: "/M?deskabelon.doc"
 >
 >where ? should be ?, and the file is stil at the system, so its not
vanished.
 >
 >The charset on NAS is: en_US.UTF-8
 >And backup-server is: en_DK.UTF-8
 >
 >I know there is a difference but in the starting wizard at the nas, it
 >was the recommended charset used for danish language files.
 >
 >And the problem had been more understandable if the charset was like:
 >
 >The charset on NAS is: en_DK.UTF-8
 >And backup-server is: en_US.UTF-8
 >
 >then the backup-server should not understand danish special chars like ? ?
?.

If you're only doing backups and don't intend to access the copies
often, you could just ignore any charset/locale/i18n issue and use
only plain C locale. No iconv anywhere, etc. Use the same settings at
both sides of course, so that neither the sender nor the receiver
tries to do any translation. I use --no-8-bit-output --no-iconv.