Hi Eric, et al.
I did some searching on Google and found a lot of information on this issue.
CVS reads each byte in a file as a character, so it can't handle double-byte
encodings, including Unicode UTF-16, which my editor automatically promotes
documents to when double-byte characters are entered. (in content, not file
names)
Solutions:
a) Don't use Unicode
b) Store them s binary (yuck)
So, I'm changing my nationality and moving to a country with a single byte
language soon :)
Cheers,
Hugi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Siegerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 3. júlí 2001 18:40
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: Extended characters
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:31:25PM -0000, Hugi Thordarson wrote:
> > I just made the big mistake of committing a file containing
> the Icelandic
> > character Eth (ð) into CVS.
>
> In the file's name or its contents?
>
> > Now the file is apparently ruined.
>
> What are the symptoms?
> Which version of CVS?
>
> > Does anyone
> > know if I can revert this change and fix this?
>
> How can we, until we understand the problem?
>
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> |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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