Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Unicode (chinese) characters on Windows

[Matthias Kauer]

Hi Dominic,
thanks for the clarification.

This is a bit tricky b/c the IME and all the other things that the
Chinese locale brings with it is quite annoying overall.
I decided to rename all the Chinese files I had to unicode using an
approach similar to the one described here:
https://geekwardnote.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/how-to-rename-chinese-file-to-pinyin/

If I had to do it again, I'd probably use
https://github.com/lxneng/xpinyin or another sync tool.

Best regards,
Matthias

On 20/03/2015 18:28, Dominic Raferd wrote:
> On 20/03/2015 04:08, Matthias Kauer wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm experimenting with the Windows build on your home page on my Win 7
>> machine.
>>
>> I ran into trouble with file names that contain Chinese characters such
>> as minimal example 'test_sync/我报.txt'.
>> Running rdiff-backup yields the following error:
>> --------------
>> C:\opt\rdiff-backup-1.3.3>rdiff-backup.exe  "E:\test_sync"
>> "E:\rdiff_target"
>> Found interrupted initial backup. Removing...
>> Exception 'Path: E:\test_sync/??.txt
>> Index: ('??.txt',)
>> ...
>>
>> On Linux, this example works as I would expect it to. I am wondering if
>> this is fixable without changing my locale or if that would even help.
>> Since this is a Python program, I doubt it would make a difference,
>> would it?
>> In any case, it doesn't seem to depend on the console I use (cmd doesn't
>> display the characters, ConEmu does).
>>
>> I am also wondering if there's a manual for building on Windows. The
>> wiki doesn't seem to be available anymore and the setup.py script that I
>> found in https://github.com/pgodel/rdiff-backup doesn't work for me,
>> probably because I don't know how to properly include librsync.
>>
>> Hope you have some advice.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Matthias Kauer
>>
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> 
> If you are backing up files with unusual characters (letters) in the
> filenames, it is necessary that Windows fully supports these characters
> from the command line. If they can't be viewed correctly from the
> command line then they can't be backed up correctly by TimeDicer. The
> solution is to add the relevant language for 'non-Unicode programs'
> (e.g. Chinese) under the Administrative tab in Region and Language
> setting of Control Panel (for Windows 7, this is found under 'Clock,
> Language, and Region').
> 
> [Quoted from http://www.timedicer.co.uk]
> 
> Dominic
> 
> 
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