Craig Barratt wrote:
> Rob writes:
> 
>> I think I see the problem now.  Each of these files contains at least
>> one "special" character.  For instance, a 'u' with two dots over it.  It
>> seems that maybe rsync, windows, and BackupPC are not agreeing on the
>> spelling of the filenames.  Does this sound right?  And is there
>> anything I can do about it besides renaming the files?
> 
> Yes.  cygwin doesn't work correctly with windows unicode characters.
> Rsync gets a directory listing, and then goes to open each file, but
> the file open fails since the file name is not encoded correctly.
> 
> Here you will find a patched cygwin that works correctly:
> 
>     http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/
> 
> I'm not sure why this hasn't made it into the standard cygwin release.
> 
Since I'm using the rsyncd package, and not full cygwin, should I simply
get the cygwin1.dll from the site you mentioned and substitute it for
the dll currently installed on my system?  That's what I'm going to try,
so if it's wrong, somebody yell...

-Rob

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