[Box Backup] bbackupquery and german umlauts

[Chris Wilson]

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Hi Max,

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Max Lindner wrote:

> I have a question regarding the umlaut handling of bbackupquery.
>
> I wanted to restore a file inside a directory named "Vorlagen B=FCro".=20
> Sadly its not possible to enter a german umlaut inside the tool and the=
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> tabcompletion seems to escape it, but the command fails:
>
> query > cd /home/samba/architektur/Vorlagen B\303\274ro/
> Incorrect usage.
> cd [-o] [-d] <directory>
>
> The filenames are utf-8 and the locale is utf-8, too.

You have a missing backslash before the space, after "Vorlagen", so=20
bbackupquery sees this as two arguments and complains about the usage.=20
Alternatively, I think you can place the whole path in quotes.

> Should this be possible with bbackupquery? Am I missing something? Is it=
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> only implemented in the development-tree yet?
>
> I use boxbackup 0.10 on a debian etch

I implemented some changes for Windows support for international=20
characters in my trees, but it should always have worked, and continue to=
=20
work, on Unixes. Please let us know if it doesn't, thanks!

Cheers, Chris.
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