Mauro, thanks again for the very verbose explanation. It confirms some
of the errors others reported.

> To sum this up: the suggestion given by Markus Kling seems to work 
> perfectly in our environment. The only problem we still have with commit 
> comments issued by Linux clients is not due to Scmbug.
> 
> __UPDATE:__ I just discovered how to configure Eclipse to use the 
> ISO-8859-1 encoding when interacting with the CVS server: now our Linux 
> developers can commit changes with comments with non-corrupted non-ASCII 
> characters, too! :-) This confirms once more that Scmbug is working 
> perfectly in our environment now.

Are the machine Scmbug runs on and the machine Bugzilla runs on different 
machines?


> The only thing is not clear to me is the following: what if we were 
> using another charset as the one used for our sources? That is, what 
> would happen if we stored the sources in the CVS server in UTF-8 too? 

I think the solution is for Scmbug to dynamically detect the charset
during the post-commit activity, and then have the glue supply that
charset information over to the daemon.

> All may work correctly anyway, or some corruptions may occur (for 
> instance: the notification e-mail is sent in ISO-8859-1 charset, so 
> would a conversion from UTF-8 occur?). To reply to this question I would 
> need a deep knowledge of Perl, Scmbug and all of the components involved 
> in the whole process, but unfortunately I don't. However, I hope this 
> helps you in some way.

It is very helpful. Thanks again for the feedback.

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