[Chandler-dev] Last weeks progress in i18n of Chandler

[Grant Baillie]

On May 22, 2006, at 9:29 , Grant Baillie wrote:

>
> On May 22, 2006, at 8:36, Markku Mielityinen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A brief list of things that I have done last week:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> 4) The filesystem unicode tests in /chandler/parcels/osaf/sharing/ 
>> tests passed in Windows with '\u00FC' characters in the filenames.  
>> An interesting observation was that cygwin terminal and svn do not  
>> support unicode filenames. The terminal showed '?' in place of  
>> '\u00FC' and the svn was unable to process these files and exitted  
>> with and error. I will repeat this test in Linux as well.
>
> BTW, on the Mac (where UTF-8 is the filesystem encoding), the only  
> way I could get svn to accept non-ASCII filenames was to do
>
> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>
> in my shell. (The en_US isn't important -- you could choose, for  
> example, fi instead ;).
>
> Otherwise, even a single non-ASCII character filename in a  
> directory is enough to disable svn completely (even if that file  
> isn't in svn).

BTW, due to a bunch of cross-platform issues, it's not so good to add  
non-ASCII files to svn. See:

<http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2464>

with more info in the mailing list thread:

<http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-04/0841.shtml>

--Grant