Hi David, Bert, Alexey and everybody, now it WORKS!! Thank you for your advises. 8-))
To solve my encoding problem, I had to: - upgrade to cygwin 1.7 - set LC_ALL=de_DE.CP1252 (for Cygwin) - chcp 1252 (for Windows) - use a True-Type font (Lucida Console) => Now Windows, Dos console, Cygwin and svn can talk with each other with all German umlaut characters and such. GREAT! Paul. > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: David Huang [mailto:k...@azeotrope.org] > Gesendet: Montag, 1. November 2010 04:23 > An: users@subversion.apache.org > Betreff: Re: Feature request: Support of Windows Codepage 850 > > > On Oct 31, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Paul Maier wrote: > > > Hi there! > > > > All output, that comes from the svn internationalization, > shows correctly > > on both codepages, 850 and 1252. E. g. error messages or > "svn help ci". Good. > > (Font in use is Lucida Console.) > > > > This shows, that it *is* possible for svn, to produce > correct output on both > > codepages, 850 and 1252. > > > > But output that comes from file data ("svn cat file") only > prints correct with > > Codepage 1252. Seems, that this output goes through a > different piece of code, > > that is not able to adjust to the Codepage in use. > > svn cat just outputs the file that's in the repository... if > your file happens to be a a CP1252-encoded text file, but > your console expects CP850, I don't think you should expect > it to display properly. And how would svn even know that the > file is a CP1252-encoded text file? While it does keep track > of the MIME type, it doesn't keep track of charset > encoding... perhaps I have a Chinese BIG5-encoded file in my > repo; if SVN assumed it was CP1252 and tried to do a > 1252->850 conversion on it, it'd corrupt the file. > > I think svn cat just needs to output the exact bytes of the > file, rather than trying to do any conversion. If you want to > do charset conversion, you could probably just pipe the > output through iconv (available in Cygwin). E.g., svn cat > filename | iconv -f cp1252 -t cp850 > > > (I have to use Codepage 850, because Cygwin needs it.) > > I haven't tried it myself, but my understanding is that > Cygwin 1.7 honors the locale environment variables. Perhaps > try "set LC_CTYPE=de_DE.CP1252" or perhaps one of the other > locale variables (LANG? LC_ALL?)=
