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

[Dominic Raferd]

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