Esoteric characters in filenames sometimes lead to weird errors. I recently backed up files with rsync, noticing that some minutes into the process, all status output stopped. Investigating further, I found that the cause was a file name with Asian characters in it. One of the symbols had unicode value 0x0090 which I suppose my shell interpreted as the control character DCS. As no corresponding ST character (value 0x009C) ever followed, this caused all output to halt. After rsync finished, all text issued thereafter spilled out to the terminal at once.I already consulted the stty manual page, but could not find a way temporarily rid this special symbol of its function for the duration of the rsync execution. Is there any way to deactivate these characters?
Deactivate DCS contol character
terminal;rsync;escape characters;special characters;stty