Re: rsync no longer preserves extended ASCII characters after 1.7 upgrade

[Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel dot org>]

Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote, on 12/27/2009 10:41 PM:
> I'm running cygwin on a WinXP system with an NTFS-formatted drive. I
> have a script that regularly backs up using rsync onto a Linux system
> (Debian) with an ext3 drive.
>
> Before the recent major upgrade, all extended ASCII characters were
> preserved perfectly without any special rsync switches. E.g., é stayed
> as é (assuming that character will survive this mailing list post --
> accented e).
>
> Now, all accented characters appear as ? on the target linux system.

Actually, this is a little more complicated than I thought. When I mount 
the rsync target linux drive as a Samba share from the WinXP box, the 
files appear to have the correct accents on the destination. But when I 
view them from the linux box, they have scrambled accents -- either just 
?'s if I use ls (must be a terminal issue), or different nonstandard 
characters that aren't the right extended characters if I redirect the 
output to a file and then view that.

I'm just trying to get back the behavior from before the upgrade. Thanks 
for any suggestions.

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