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Re: Problems with accents in filenames

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent+svn_at_vinc17.org>
Date: 2003-11-22 12:52:03 CET

On 2003-11-22 12:35:33 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> There seems to be a universal agreement amongst software that supports
> non-ASCII charsets: always encode in UTF-8. If subversion doesn't do
> that, it will break such software (bash is already broken concerning
> non-ASCII charsets, as two users won't be able to share correctly the
> same files if they use different locales).

and subversion breaks itself when the user wants to use a different
locale:

From an UXterm:
$ svn add testé
$ svn commit

From an Xterm, with an ISO-8859-1 locale:
$ svn st
? testé
! testé

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