RE: Extended characters [Solved (well, sort of)]

[Hugi Thordarson]

Hi Eric, et al.

I did some searching on Google and found a lot of information on this issue.
CVS reads each byte in a file as a character, so it can't handle double-byte
encodings, including Unicode UTF-16, which my editor automatically promotes
documents to when double-byte characters are entered. (in content, not file
names)

Solutions:
        a) Don't use Unicode
        b) Store them s binary (yuck)

So, I'm changing my nationality and moving to a country with a single byte
language soon :)

Cheers,
Hugi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Siegerman [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 3. júlí 2001 18:40
> To: 'address@hidden'
> Subject: Re: Extended characters
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:31:25PM -0000, Hugi Thordarson wrote:
> > I just made the big mistake of committing a file containing 
> the Icelandic
> > character Eth (ð) into CVS.
> 
> In the file's name or its contents?
> 
> > Now the file is apparently ruined.
> 
> What are the symptoms?
> Which version of CVS?
> 
> > Does anyone
> > know if I can revert this change and fix this?
> 
> How can we, until we understand the problem?
> 
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