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...filenames containing special characters (Umlaute like ??u???). And all the filenames look perfect on my mac. But whenever I run rsync again, all the files containing one of this special character in the name are deleted and copied again. And these are quite a lot. I found the reason for this behavoiur. Let me explain it with the example of the letter ? (&uuml) in HTML. On the LINUX machines running utf-8 the ? is coded as $C3A4 which is in utf-8 equal to the character E4. The ? occupies in that way 2 bytes. I was very astonished, when I copied a mac-filename, pasted into a texteditor an...