Problem with recursive rar archiving non-ascii filenames
- by AndreasT
Say I want to create a backup of folder MainFolder's content using rar. The command
rar a Backup.rar -r MainFolder
does the job.
BUT, if a subdirectory contains more than one file named with non-ASCII (?) characters, then only one of them is archived and the others get excluded.
For example, consider the following directory hierarchy (MainFolder, A and B are folders; a, b, ? and ? are files)
+MainFolder
+A
-a
-b
-?
-?
+B
-a
-b
-a
-b
-?
-?
then the command rar a Backup.rar -r MainFolder skips
MainFolder/A/?
MainFolder/?
while rar a Backup.rar -r MainFolder/* still skips
MainFolder/A/?
Why is it so? Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!
For the record, I already encountered some issues with non-ascii characters (see this question) that other Linux distributions seem not to have. Anyway, I use Lubuntu 12.04, terminal is lxterminal and echo $BASH_VERSION returns 4.2.25(1)-release. rar version is 4.00 beta 3.
Another curiosity: right-clicking on the folder and selecting Compress... and then .rar still has the same problem. Other options (zip, tar...) behave correctly.
