Re: File names lose special characters in names when moved to Sol10

From: CJT (abujlehc_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:28:25 GMT

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> In article <41FAFCEA.6000609@prodigy.net>, CJT <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote:
>
>>I moved a bunch of files to a Sol10 test machine via pax, and when
>>they arrived, file names containing accented characters had lost
>>the accents. Have I misconfigured something?
>
>
> You just did hit a miss conception from the POSIX pax definition.
>
> Pax was not designed to make backups. It only works if the directory tree that
> is archived by pax uses the same locale as the person who runs pax.
>
> For backups better use star
>
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha
>
> http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php
>
>
I think it _is_ a locale problem. But I was using pax in -rw mode, so
the person creating the "archive" was, by definition, the same as the
one doing the extraction. However, I believe it is true that the user
who created the affected file names was operating under a different
locale.

I did not experience this under Solaris 9. 

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