copying utf8 to msdos
    Ulrich Spoerlein 
    uspoerlein at gmail.com
       
    Thu Jul  3 12:30:29 PDT 2008
    
    
  
On Thu, 03.07.2008 at 20:06:04 +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> does anybody know how to copy files with UTF8 filenames to a msdos fs?  On 
> accented letters and Umlauts cp/rsync complain "Invalid argument" and 
> don't create/copy the file.
A collegue of mine has a similar problem, he told me rsync in version 3
has support for iconv and will convert filenames between different
charsets. Haven't tried it myself, though.
Cheers,
Ulrich Spoerlein
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