From: Wayne Davison Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:09:22 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Improved the --iconv description. X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/commitdiff_plain/0156c7842d413de7a6a6f3aae273c73f5d269662 Improved the --iconv description. --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 765a9e20..48484fbf 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -62,9 +62,14 @@ Changes since 2.6.9: There is also an analogous "fake super" option for an rsync daemon. - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from - one character-set to another during the transfer. (If your system does - not support iconv, you must currently manually disable this by using - the --enable-iconv configure option.) + one character-set to another during the transfer. The default is to make + this feature available as long as your system has iconv_open(). If + compilation fails, specify --disable-iconv to configure and rebuild. If + you want rsync to perform character-set conversions by default, you can + specify --enable-iconv=CONVERT_STRING with the default value for the + --iconv option that you wish to use. For example, --enable-iconv=. is a + good choice. See the rsync man page for an explanation of the --iconv + option's settings. - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client as long as the receiving side is at least version 3.0.0. This means that you can pull from an