On 2010-08-11 11:11:25 +0200, Paul Ebermann wrote: > The thing is, users are using other tools than SVN to work with the > files, too. > > So if I look at my directory with a file manager, I want my > filenames to be readable (and renameable). The idea is that usually > the user uses for one working copy always the same locale for all > tools, so all filenames look same.
Yes, and this is another reason why the solution chosen by Subversion doesn't work well. For instance, GNOME always uses UTF-8 for filename encoding. So, if the user uses ISO-8859-* locales (for shell sessions), one gets inconsistencies. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
