Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

[Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg dot org>]

Corinna Vinschen schrieb:

(...)

> > So that character is "f021".
>
> I should have thought about that from the beginning.  Well, there's no
> workaround and there will be no patch for this.  The problem is that
> this character value is within the 0xf000-0xf0ff range.  This range is
> part of the UNICODE block 95, "Private Use Area".  There is by
> definition no valid UNICODE character assigned within this area and
> Cygwin reserves the right to use this 0xf000-0xf0ff for its own
> purposes.  Besides, I have a hard time to imagine how a user could
> create a filename with this value except wantonly.
>
> The range from 0xf000-0xf0ff is used by Cygwin 1.7.0 to map special
> characters which are disallowed in DOS filenames.  You can use every
> other UNICODE character in Cygwin, except for these values.

I see.

Thanks a lot for your support.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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