"Gustave T. Stresen-Reuter" <tedmasterweb@mac.com> wrote on 08/22/2005
11:33:06 AM:
> We have a multi-platform development environment (windows, mac os x,
> linux). On Windows and Linux we use JEdit as the editor and on the Mac
> we use BBEdit.
>
> We're finding that we have a couple of character encoding issues and
> don't know how to solve them.
>
> Specifically, documents checked into Subversion from the Mac (encoded
> in utf-8 No BOM) and then checked out onto Windows end up incorrectly
> encoded (accented characters display incorrectly). Likewise, documents
> created on the windows machines, checked into Subversion and then
> checked out onto the Mac end up with "gremlins" (characters that don't
> display but are definitely a part of the document).
>
> I've read in several places that documents checked into Subversion are
> converted to utf-8, but if that were true, why would we end up with
> this mis-encoded documents? Is it possible that JEdit or some other
> aspect of Windows is messing with the encoding and if so, what could it
> possibly be?
>
> This is somewhat urgent so any help resolving this issue is greatly
> appreciated.
Subversion does not do anything to the contents of your files. The lone
exception being that you can ask Subversion to do stuff with the EOL
characters and/or expand specific keywords.
The UTF-8 information you are referring to only applies to the file
"metadata", such as the filename or any properties. You are on your own
when it comes to the encoding. If your file content is UTF-8 you should
just need to use tools that properly recognize that encoding.
Mark
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Received on Mon Aug 22 17:57:09 2005