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Re: svn checkout - special characters in file name are not encoding properly

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 19:30:00 +0300

Alexander Skwar wrote on Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 18:22:57 +0200:
> Hi.
>
>
> Am 09.08.2010 um 17:31 schrieb Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>:
>
>>
>>
>> suman.mainam_at_asia.bnpparibas.com wrote on Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at
>> 11:42:04 +0530:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm working on French project. Very recently we have migrated our
>>> project
>>> from CVS to SVN repository. After migration, when checking out the
>>> file
>>> names which have special characters like Western-Europe encoding
>>> fonts are
>>> giving problem.
>>>
>>> e.g.:"modŠle fields-replacements.xsl" is the file name inside the
>>> Subversion and after checking out the file into the local machine it
>>> is
>>> coming like "mod?le fields-replacements.xsl"
>>> Inside the file name '?' is displaying rather than Š(S with caron).
>>>
>>> Please help me to get the proper file-names from subversion without
>>> any
>>> encoding
>>> problem
>>>
>>
>> We do support UTF-8 file names:
>>
>
> And I bet, that exactly this is the problem; I bet, he's on a platform,
> which doesn't use UTF8 for encoding filenames (eg. Windows).
>
> How's the iso-8859-x support? Especially if Linux and Windows are used
> in parallel?
>

In the repository filesystem, we use UTF-8 exclusively. APR handles
translating that UTF-8 to whatever the local OS supports.

> Alexander
>
>>
Received on 2010-08-09 18:32:23 CEST

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