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Re: UTF8 and cvs issues in 1.7.2
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:30:28 +0100
- Subject: Re: UTF8 and cvs issues in 1.7.2
- References: <op.u95cmzou5o90vo@orion.search.b.superkabel.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mar 26 00:24, lemkemch@t-online.de wrote:
> Erik Blake wrote:
> >On 03/25/2010 05:05 PM, lemkemch wrote:
> >> orion> cvs -qn up -l
> >> U Ãppel.txt
> >> cvs update: warning: `âppel.txt' is not (any longer) pertinent
> >>> And frankly, I can't see how the terminal could influence the
> >> behavior of the cvs executable. I am not talking about the
> >> displayed characters here but that cvs wants to update a file.
> >I wonder if the problem is that CVS/Entries was created under one
> >charset, but you are now using a different charset. I suppose you could
> >use iconv to convert the file to the correct encoding. Or it may be a
> >sign that cvs has not yet been recompiled to be charset-aware.
>
> Yes, that sort of it is. Further experiments show this:
>
> CVS/Entries written by 1.5:
>
> /äppel.txt/1.1/Thu Mar 25 22:14:59 2010//
>
> With 1.7 it changes to (module character corruption through e mail):
>
> /äppel.txt/1.1/Thu Mar 25 22:14:59 2010//
>
> The positive is that the cvs update doesn't actually change
> the file on disk. All that happens is changing CVS/Entries.
> Still annoying.
>
> The fix I found is
>
> setenv LANG C.ISO-8859-1
>
> But somehow that doesn't smell right.
I explained that a lot in this list and in the User's Guide. The
problem is that Windows uses UTF-16 under the hood. So there's no
filename based operation without the requirement to convert from a
multibyte to the widechar charset. What you can do is either to
use ISO-8859-1 sort of like above, or you convert the file content
to UTF-8 so you can use UTF-8 from now on. I'm really sorry that
this is necessary, but it's really not my fault.
Corinna
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