Mentioned --8-bit (-8).

[rsync/rsync.git] / NEWS

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@@ -8,6 +8,22 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
       clumping them together with the 'D' for devices.  The number of
       characters is also different (to remove an unused field).
 
       clumping them together with the 'D' for devices.  The number of
       characters is also different (to remove an unused field).
 

+    - The way rsync escapes unreadable characters has changed.  First, rsync
+      now has support for recognizing valid multibyte character sequences in
+      your current locale, allowing it to escape fewer characters than before
+      for a locale such as UTF-8.  Second, it now uses an escape idiom of
+      "\#123", which is the literal string "\#" followed by exactly 3 octal
+      digits.  Rsync no longer doubles a backslash character in a filename
+      (e.g. it used to output "foo\\bar" when copying "foo\bar") -- now it only
+      escapes a backslash that is followed by a hash-sign and 3 digits (0-9)
+      (e.g. it will output "foo\#134#789" when copying "foo\#789").  See also
+      the --8-bit (-8) option, mentioned below.
+
+      Script writers: the local rsync is the one that outputs escaped names,
+      so if you need to support unescaping of filenames for older rsyncs, I'd
+      suggest that you parse the output of "rsync --version" and only use the
+      old unescaping rules for 2.6.5 and 2.6.6.
+

   BUG FIXES:
 
     - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the
   BUG FIXES:
 
     - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the


@@ -89,7 +105,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
       allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples of 1024)
       and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1).
 
       allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples of 1024)
       and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1).
 

-    - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the
+    - Added the --8-bit (-8) option, which tells rsync to avoid escaping high-
+      bit characters that it thinks are unreadable in the current locale.
+
+    - The new options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the

       --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read.
 
     - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
       --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read.
 
     - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the