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Re: [BackupPC-users] How are characters that are alphanumeric ASCII represented in f-mangled file names and in the attrib file? and attrib files

2011-01-24 02:24:50
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] How are characters that are alphanumeric ASCII represented in f-mangled file names and in the attrib file? and attrib files
From: Craig Barratt <cbarratt AT users.sourceforge DOT net>
To: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:22:14 -0800
Jeffrey writes:

> I know that in the fmangled, file listing, "/" is converted to %2f and
> presumably so are things like spaces, linefeeds and other non alphanumeric 
> ASCII characters.
> 
> But what about non-ASCII charsets like the ISO's and UTF8?

I believe that the byte representation of the encoded string is used.
So each byte is encoded using %xx if it is non-printable.

> What about in the attrib file?

The byte representation of the encoded UTF8 string is used as
the file name.

Craig

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