On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 16:23, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Schroeder, Hartmut > <hartmut.schroe...@plath.de> wrote: > > > I have a question concerning character encoding of file content. > > > > Let's say, we have two text files containing german umlauts and with > > different file encodings, one file has a 8859-1 encoding and the other > > UTF-8. Both file are committed to Subversion (on different machines). > > > > On a checkout both text files shall have the local encoding (UTF-8, > > e.g.) > > > > Is it possible with Subversion? > > Subversion does not record the encoding of files, nor does it try to > change or convert it. The only thing that Subversion does this for is > the filename. It stores all path names in UTF-8 and locally they are > determined by your filesystem and locale. > > Well, there's svn:mime-type, but tools have to know to look for it. The only one I'm aware of doing so is Apache when one is browsing the contents of a repository via HTTP. But, you won't find any automagical character set conversion in Subversion -- nor (IMHO) should you want to. // ben
