#
$Conf{ClientCharset} = '';
+#
+# Prior to 3.x no charset conversion was done by BackupPC. Backups were
+# stored in what ever charset the XferMethod provided - typically utf8
+# for smbclient and the client's locale settings for rsync and tar (eg:
+# cp1252 for rsync on WinXX and perhaps iso-8859-1 with rsync on linux).
+# This setting tells BackupPC the charset that was used to store file
+# names in old backups taken with BackupPC 2.x, so that non-ascii file
+# names in old backups can be viewed and restored.
+#
+$Conf{ClientCharsetLegacy} = 'iso-8859-1';
+
#
# Name of the host share that is backed up when using SMB. This can be a
# string or an array of strings if there are multiple shares per host.
BlackoutPeriods => 1,
BackupZeroFilesIsFatal => 1,
ClientCharset => 1,
+ ClientCharsetLegacy => 1,
XferMethod => 1,
XferLogLevel => 1,
SmbShareName => 1,