UTF8 and cvs issues in 1.7.2

[lemkemch@t-online.de]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:51:38 -0600 Erik Blake wrote:
> On 03/26/2010 03:44 PM, lemkemch@t-online.de wrote:
> >> 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.
> >> The only problem is this file is none of my business.  It's CVS's  
> file.
> > What does cvs on linux do in this case?
>The same thing; it's just that you've probably never used CVS on Linux
> with two different charset encodings between the two uses.  Really, the
> change in charset from cygwin 1.5 to 1.7 is a rare event, but it can
> certainly cause some grief if you aren't expecting it.

Well, on Cygwin 1.7.2 the contents of CVS/Entries depend on my setting
of LANG.  This I find strange but I understand why it happens.  Does
that also happen on Linux?  I guess not as the filename is still a stream
of bytes even in local aware Linux (I haven't used Linux for ages).

Michael


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