Re: Problems with accents in filenames

On 2003-11-22 15:41:22 +0000, Philip Martin wrote:
> Let's go through this step by step as I had to make some assumptions
> about what you did:
>
> >>From an UXterm:
>
> What locale is being used? (I going to assume it's a UTF-8 one.)

Yes.

> > $ svn add testé
>
> Do you have "test\xe9" or "test\xc3\xa9" on disk? (I'm going to
> assume it's "test\xc3\xa9".)

The UTF-8 sequence, as expected.

> > $ svn commit
> >
> >>From an Xterm, with an ISO-8859-1 locale:
> > $ svn st
> > ? testé
> > ! testé
>
> Is this the same working copy, but with a different locale?

Same working copy. And I'm using an ISO-8859-1 locale.

> (I assume it is, and that you have changed your locale from UTF-8 to
> 8859-1. The physical UTF-8 filename "test\xc3\xa9" no longer match
> the expected 8859-1 filename "test\xe9", hence the output above. I
> disagree with you that this is Subversion breaking.)

I haven't changed the files. So, this is a bug in Subversion. Any
program should know that the user may use different locales when
he wants. Locales are not something linked to the system itself,
but a user choice, local for each process (different users may
choose different locales, and different processes may run with
different locales, even for the same user).

> I don't understand your problem, if you want filenames to be UTF-8
> then set a UTF-8 locale.

No! I want an ISO-8859-1 locale because I want to work with this
character set.

> If you do that Subversion will not allow any names that aren't
> UTF-8. Are you seriously suggesting that "test\xe9", a perfectly
> valid filename, should cause a Subversion error?

No, but in my case, such a filename should never be created (using
the right programs).

> You can get what you want by setting a UTF-8 locale, why should your
> encoding be enforced on others?

This is not my encoding, but the one used by programs that will work
consistently whatever the locales are (very important in a multi-user
system).

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