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Non ascii chars in filenames don't work with nfs access
I'm using ubuntu and I mounted the nfs share using the following line in /etc/fstab
localhost:/wuala /home/reto/wuala/direct nfs defaults,users,noauto,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=120,acregmin=10,noac,intr,nolock,soft
the problem is, that filename of files that contain non ascii characters do not show up correctly, for example the folder übermut shows up as zbermut in the filesystem.
localhost:/wuala /home/reto/wuala/direct nfs defaults,users,noauto,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=120,acregmin=10,noac,intr,nolock,soft
the problem is, that filename of files that contain non ascii characters do not show up correctly, for example the folder übermut shows up as zbermut in the filesystem.
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Inappropriate?Known issue, for example cyrillic letters are shown as numbers...
I have written to Roger for a week or so and this issue is not on the urgent todo-list :-/
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?as a backup tool, wuala seems quite unusable now, quite frustrating not to be able to use my storage for the planned purpose.
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Change your workflow to fit wuala's restrictions. Simply use a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and some arithmic operators (+,.-_) and space.
This issue will not affect wuala's ability to backup your files quite nice, it is cosmetic only (except the missing possibility to reconstruate a wuala path on a given nfs-path, of course) -
full ack @reto. wuala is useless for me without correct encoding.
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Inappropriate?sure, why not to 8 and 3 uppercase ascii characters sequences separated by a single dot?
seriously, file names are titles and I've no intention to rename the artists of my music collection for them to have english names.
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Inappropriate?If you tagged your music library then you won't have problems with ascii chars. I'm using wuala to backup my music, too - with many special characters. But in your music player they will be displayed with their correct tags.
I do not like this substitution of special characters either but in most cases this does not really matter.1 Comment Add a comment
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True, I could rename my music collection and write a patch for sound-juicer to create wuala-nfs friendly names, adapt my workflows etc. Or why not, write an nfs client that renames the files on the fly (so that special characters appear correctly on the share but transliterated in wuala)...
but why should it be such a big deal to fix this in wuala? -
Inappropriate?As posted on top, I'm also not happy with this behavior!
A workaround for this problem is to use encfs to encrypt your filenames. Sure, it's kind of redundant to encrypt files to an encrypted (p2p) file system but for me that's better than having my non-ascii characters destroyed.
Another disadvantage of this 'solution' is that wuala gui becomes useless.
I hope this misbehavior is fixed soon. I'd really like to save a file called 'grüeziZäme.txt' in my wuala accout ;-)
Robert
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