Re: How to set text encoding of svn command line tools

Norbert Unterberg schrieb:
> I am on a windows box, trying to implement a post-commit hook. I am
> using svnlook to get the current commit's log message, but it is
> always in the text encoding of the windows XP command prompt (cp850 in
> this case). But I need the message in either UTF-8 or ANSI encoding
> (the way it was entered). I tried something like SET LANG=en_US.utf8
> and SET LANG=en_US.utf-8, but all it did was change the subversion
> output language (german to
> english).
>
> So how can I change the text encoding?

Command line tools, on Windows, will use the result of
GetConsoleOutputCP as their output encoding, see
subversion/libsvn_subr/cmdline.c:svn_cmdline_init.

So to change it, you need to change the encoding of the
terminal. Use chcp.exe to do so.

Regards,
Martin

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Received on Sun Nov 12 23:08:19 2006