Hi there, The long-standing Github issue #426 refers to mishandling of UTF-8 in the configuration editor of the BackupPC Web user interface. The OP in that issue was having trouble with UTF-8 in share names but I guess it could happen elsewhere.
In the past few days I've been digging into this and I think have it under control now. The fix takes the form of a replacement for the script 'EditConfig.pl' in directory '.../BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/CGI'. The only changes for this fix are in that one script, so if you are running version 4.4.0 of BackupPC it will just drop right in. If anyone would like to take it for a spin we can proceed in several different ways: 1. Send the script to interested parties by email. 2. Post the script here. 3. Create e.g. a 'testing' branch on Github. 4. Something else? Option 3 would beg the question of which branch to base it on. If you already have UTF-8 in existing share names I wouldn't recommend actually saving the configuration edited by the Web interface (neither the old version nor the 'fixed' version) without being sure things are behaving as expected. Of course it's easy to save the working configs and restore them if necessary. Anyone interested? -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
