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Write about convmv in the docs for fixing non UTF-8 filesystems - fixes #300

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Nick Craig-Wood 2016-02-21 14:09:06 +00:00
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@ -25,9 +25,13 @@ on OS X.
### Filenames ###
Filenames are expected to be encoded in UTF-8 on disk. This is the
normal case for Windows and OS X. There is a bit more uncertainty in
the Linux world, but new distributions will have UTF-8 encoded files
names.
normal case for Windows and OS X.
There is a bit more uncertainty in the Linux world, but new
distributions will have UTF-8 encoded files names. If you are using an
old Linux filesystem with non UTF-8 file names (eg latin1) then you
can use the `convmv` tool to convert the filesystem to UTF-8. This
tool is available in most distributions' package managers.
If an invalid (non-UTF8) filename is read, the invalid caracters will
be replaced with the unicode replacement character, '<27>'. `rclone`