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On 2009/12/27 11:12 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> But I think the --iconv option is the better way. Assuming you want to
> stick with ISO-8859-1 on the Linux side, '--iconv utf8,iso88591'
> should do the job.

Regarding using the '--iconv' option in rsync transfers from Cygwin
(charset UTF-8) to Linux (charset ISO-8859-1): I just checked the rsync
man page again, and I thought I would follow up with some additional info.

If rsync is invoked from the Cygwin side, then the option to use is
'--iconv=UTF-8,ISO-8859-1'. Conversely, if invoked from the Linux side,
one would use '--iconv=ISO-8859-1,UTF-8'. [The convention is:
--iconv=<local-charset>,<remote-charset>.] Finally, if both ends of the
transfer have sane locale/charset settings, one can simply use
'--iconv=.' to tell rsync to automatically determine and apply the
appropriate conversion.

Incidentally, I ran some sample rsync transfers from Cygwin 1.7.1 (with
default locale/charset) to Debian 5.0.3 (set to en_CA.ISO-8859-1), and
the '--iconv' option functioned correctly every time.

-SM
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