On 2010-08-11 17:34:19 +0200, Paul Ebermann wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > That's wrong. GNOME let's me to use any locale in shell sessions. > > Subversion doesn't. > > Yes, but GNOME does not allow using any locale in a file manager > session (or, it ignores the locale in the filemanager session, while > the command line tools do not).
The main point is that this is transparent to the user. > > You're forcing the user to use a UTF-8 locale. Unacceptable. > > No, GNOME forces the user to use a UTF-8 locale, if ls, rm, cd and > other command line tools are to show/accept the same name as the > GNOME file manager. That's just a minor display problem (not even always a problem). But ls, rm and cd work fine under non-UTF-8 locales on any file. > Subversion here simply behaves as any other Unix command line tool, No, if the user uses a different locale, commands like "svn up" can fail. There's no such problem with other Unix tools. -- 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)