[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #629: 'tahoe backup' doesn't tolerate 8-bit filenames

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#629: 'tahoe backup' doesn't tolerate 8-bit filenames
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 Reporter:  warner             |           Owner:  francois 
     Type:  defect             |          Status:  assigned 
 Priority:  major              |       Milestone:  undecided
Component:  code-frontend-cli  |         Version:  1.3.0    
 Keywords:  backup unicode     |   Launchpad_bug:           
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Comment(by midnightmagic):

 Uh..  one might be me. :-) I have ill-encoded filenames as a leftover from
 old, old data stores: I actually have direct backups from my Amiga, for
 example, that have survived all the machine disasters I've had (so far)
 and persist in my backup stores. I have files from my old Commodore-64
 too, for that matter. Sometimes it's a matter of trying to keep as
 pristine a backup of those files as possible so that I can use them in
 things like emulators, or even actual antique hardware, that keeps me from
 doing any sorts of conversions. Also, the OS filesystem seems to ignore
 encodings for the most part in its command-line activities: and so these
 artifacts persist. (And I'd love to store them in a tahoe backup grid
 without transforming them with.. for example, tar or something.)

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