OK, folks, this thread has been a while coming, but I wanted to
mention that it's been fixed.  We discovered that on Michael's system,
in whatever context amandad runs, isspace(0x20) == 0.  That is to say,
it's not thinking in ASCII for some reason.

The fix, in r1310, is to use Glib's g_ascii_isspace(), which (as you
might guess) always uses ASCII regardless of any system settings.  For
the moment, this is appropriate everywhere in Amanda, and it will
remain true in the on-wire and on-disk formats.  At some point, we'll
support Unicode in the configuration file, but that's not a current
project.

Dustin

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