On 2010-08-11 13:51:18 +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:35:59PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > 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. > > You might as well argue that Subversion's solution works well but > GNOME's solution does not.
That's wrong. GNOME let's me to use any locale in shell sessions. Subversion doesn't. > > So, if the user uses ISO-8859-* locales (for shell sessions), > > one gets inconsistencies. > > So don't use GNOME if you don't want your filenames encoded in UTF-8, I meant: one gets inconsistencies between GNOME and Subversion. > or don't use a non-UTF-8 locale when working with files you want to > use from GNOME. Problem solved. You're forcing the user to use a UTF-8 locale. Unacceptable. -- 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)