On Sep 13, 2007, at 15:29, Kriss Ashley wrote:
> Some of our clients are in japan and china. Sometimes they send
> files to us that they are having a problem with. Sometimes these files
> are wrapped in a winzip or winrar archive and include a partial
> directory structure. When we check these files we extract them on a
> Chinese or Japanese system as required, creating subdirectories and
> files that may have Chinese or Japanese characters in the name.
> Currently, we usually add the zip or .rar files to source control.
>
> What limitations does SVN have regarding the names of the
> directories and files in the repository? The QA folks were
> wondering if
> they could add objects to SVN directly from the Japanese or Chinese
> windoze machines.
> My initial response was that the path names and file names have
> to use characters that are XML 1.0 compliant. Is this correct?
I don't know about that. But I would expect Japanese and Chinese
characters would be perfectly fine in file and directory names in the
repository. Subversion uses UTF-8.
Checking in the underlying files would probably be better than
checking in zip or rar or any other archives.
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Received on Thu Sep 13 23:00:05 2007