RE: Issue with directory name that includes dash like " - " ...

[Rick Genter]

> From: address@hidden 
> [mailto:address@hidden 
> On Behalf Of Larry Jones
> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 2:17 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Issue with directory name that includes dash 
> like " - " ...
> 
> address@hidden writes:
> > 
> > During this operation, we noticed that whenever we had a directory
> > name that had a space-dash-space (" - ") in it, the 
> checkout operation
> > used to modify it to space-question-space (" ? ")
> 
> What versions of CVS are you running?  (Do ``cvs version'' in the
> checked-out directory to find out for sure.)
> 
> I am not able to reproduce your problem, so it may be a Red Hat
> modification (probably to avoid the dash in the name being
> misinterpreted as the start of a command option).

I believe another possibility is that the "dash" wasn't not an ASCII
hyphen (0x2D) but a non-ASCII character that looks like a hyphen
(extended ASCII 0xC4, Unicode 0x2010), and that the local system's
encoding doesn't allow for such characters.
--
Rick Genter
Principal Software Engineer
Silverlink Communications