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

From: CJT (abujlehc_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:09:30 GMT

CJT wrote:
> 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.
>

FWIW, upon further investigation it appears the mistake was mine.
The names seemed to have been altered, but some programming was
involved.

So ... mea culpa.

Thanks for the responses. 

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