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RE: Feature request: Support of Windows Codepage 850

From: Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 14:24:18 +0100

> -----Original Message-----
> From: svn-user_at_web.de [mailto:svn-user_at_web.de]
> Sent: zondag 31 oktober 2010 19:35
> To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Feature request: Support of Windows Codepage 850
>
> Hi there!
>
> All output, that comes from the svn internationalization, shows
> correctly
> on both codepages, 850 and 1252. E. g. error messages or "svn help ci".
> Good.
> (Font in use is Lucida Console.)
>
> This shows, that it *is* possible for svn, to produce correct output on
> both
> codepages, 850 and 1252.
>
> But output that comes from file data ("svn cat file") only prints
> correct with
> Codepage 1252. Seems, that this output goes through a different piece
> of code,
> that is not able to adjust to the Codepage in use.
>
> So at the moment the behaviour of svn with Codepage 850 is
> inconsistent:
> sometimes supported ("svn help ci"), sometimes not ("svn cat").
>
> Currently I need Cygwin's cat command to convert the output of "svn
> cat" to
> Codepage 850:
> svn cat file | cat
>
> Feature request:
> "svn cat file" should also work with Codepage 850.
>
> Who agrees, that this feature request is worth a prio P4 issue?
>
> (I have to use Codepage 850, because Cygwin needs it.)

'svn cat file' doesn't perform any translation at all. It just writes what
is in 'file' to the standard output device.
(Subversion doesn't know which character encoding is used in 'file')

        Bert
Received on 2010-11-01 14:25:04 CET

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