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Encode strings as utf-8 instead of ascii
Otherwise reflink will fail when trying to copy files with non-ascii characters. For example 'é' or 'ø'.
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Otherwise reflink will fail when trying to copy files with non-ascii characters. For example 'é' or 'ø'.