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Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 09:10:26 +0100
From: Chris January <chris AT atomice DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Unicode in filenames support?
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Jaeho Shin wrote:
> I'm having problem with accessing files that have Unicode in their
> filenames.
> 
> 1. I use Windows XP Korean version (so the codepage must be 949?).
> 2. I use iTunes to listen to my music.
> 3. Files in iTunes Library have filenames in the following format:
>    "{Artist}/{Album}/{Track#} {Title}.mp3"
>     where names inside braces are values from its ID3-tag.
> 4. Some of my mp3s have Japanese or Latin characters,
>    e.g. é (Latin small letter e with acute).
>    In ID3-tags, those characters seem to be in UCS-2 encoding or so,
>    but not in CP949 or EUC-KR.
> 5. I want to rsync those files to my other Linux machine.
> 6. But rsync complains some files (whose name contains such
>    special/Unicode characters perhaps?) have vanished! :'(
> 
> With Windows Explorer, I can copy them to a Samba share (with utf-8
> encoding) without any problem.  However, from the Cygwin environment, it
> seems that there is no way I can access those files.
> 
> I tried the "mount -o managed" option which escapes capitals and other
> non-ascii characters in filenames.  It wasn't a solution for me since
> iTunes (not Cygwin) mainly manages the files.
> 
> Since I really want to use rsync, I hope Cygwin to be able to access
> Unicode filenames.  It would be great if I could mount a filesystem with
> a charset or encoding specified.  Is there any nice way already I can
> solve this problem?
> 
Some time ago I wrote a patch for Cygwin that converted Unicode files to 
UTF-8 and back. Maybe you can dig that up and see if you can get it 
working with the latest Cygwin code.

Chris

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