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

[pranayvora]

On Jul 6, 11:54 pm, address@hidden wrote:
> On Jul 6, 3:01 am, "Rick Genter" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > > 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 " - " ...
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> > > address@hidden writes:
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> > > > 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 (" ? ")
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> > > What versions of CVS are you running?  (Do ``cvs version'' in the
> > > checked-out directory to find out for sure.)
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> > > 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).
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> > 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
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> Hi Rick,
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> This could be a possibility worth exploring.
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> However, the directories when added to the repository, were first
> created on windows box (dev client workstation) and then added using
> WinCVS client. What I would like to ask is would this different ascii
> hyphen character by due to the client OS ? Ideally, the dev user when
> creating the directory would use the std hyphen (on the keyboard) and
> chances of the hyphen from extended ASCII being typed is quite less,
> unless someone deliberately adds it that way.
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> Regards
> Pranay- Hide quoted text -
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Hi Rick,

Thanks for your inputs. The issue indeed was due to the two different
ASCII characters. The non-standard ASCII originated when the directory
name was picked from the email/Word doc made in MS Office, which
probably made it a non-std hyphen character when created. If the
directory name was typed in manually, it worked fine.

thanks again.