Re: [rdiff-backup-users] What filename characters does Mac OS X support?

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "Carsten Lorenz" <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:40:30 +0200
> 
> The lowest mention character in this table is 0x00C0 which is an À. And
> if you enter "touch \300" the answer is "touch: À: Invalid argument".
> It must be replaced by the other Unicode coding 0x0041 and 0x0300 which
> is A and `.

Hmm so the quoting behavior in 1.1.0 isn't foolproof, in that there
could be some filesystem that was case insensitive, yet still
supported a filename of À ("\300").  If you tried to back this
filesystem up to a HFS+ system, then rdiff-backup wouldn't quote at
all, and would barf on the À files.

I don't think there is a read-only way to test for this stuff though,
and in practice I don't know if this will ever come up.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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