Re: [Bug report] Problem with date not showing properly in file header

On 23 January 2012 16:32, Felix Saphir <felix.saphir_at_kantarmedia.com> wrote:
> Am 23.01.2012 17:26, schrieb Henrik Fahlquist:
>> That I know, the problem is that the text show up faulty from the
>> beginning.
>
> I'm sorry, but how do you know? It looks like a ISO-8859-something
> representation of a valid UTF-8 sequence for an å (because of måndag, of
> course). Have you looked at the file with a hex-editor?
>
>> Since that text is generated by Tortoise, it is not in the
>> file to start with. So I am not addressing the Python problem but
>> rather that Tortoise is creating those strange chars in the
>> date:-tag. I have not created the file myself but I am subscribing to
>> a folder containing the file.
>
> AFAIK, subversion-generated replacements for keywords are always in
> UTF-8, which is a feature, not a bug ;-)

If you don't like the UTF-8 keywords that Subversion generates, you
don't have to use them ;-)

If it is an overall version number or release date you might want to
use SubWCRev instead. That has options for formatting, so you can use
numerical dates instead.

Simon

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