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[Walter Rudametkin <rudametkin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I would like to add that that you need to consider the operating 
system's character encoding, even among different flavors of *nix.

For example, Dropbox silently fails to sync files among machines that 
have invalid characters for different encodings. Let's say machine1 uses 
UTF-8 and adds a file with an em-dash character (−), it won't sync to 
machine2 with ISO-8859-1 because em-dash is not a valid character.

Regards,
Walter


On 12/12/2013 01:27 PM, Fabrice Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le 12/12/2013 09:12, Philipp Heckel a écrit :
> > I'm not sure how to handle this. Dropbox will rename these files (case
> > conflict: "readme (Case Conflict)") or not sync them at all. Is that the
> > right way to do it? Are there other options?
>
> My take:
>
> - first step:
> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/stable/unison-manual.html#crossplatform
> - second step (in later version): allow some form of (semi)automatic
> renaming which is recorded in the database as such, in a way that allows
> users to have files that are illegal on one system to be remapped to
> legal ones without breaking things on flexible systems.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fabrice