Re: strange umlaut problem in cvs

[gnu-cvs]

Hi Philip,

CVS does not define an encoding to use for file names or commit messages, 
hence you never should use non-7-bit-ASCII characters in file names or 
commit messages.

It might work accidently, when you always work on the same platform, but it 
fails if you are using a different platform.

--
Best regards,
Thomas Singer


Philliph Mau schrieb:
> Hi!
>
> I get the following message by checking out a cvs project:
> "cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file .new.dirk geht to dirk geht
> an franz vorber.jpg: Invalid argument"
>
> On the website
> http://hea-www.harvard.edu/MST/simul/software/docs/pkgs/cvs/html/cvs_21.html 
>
> is written, that it is not much known about this error.. I hope you can 
> help me though!?
>
> Well, here are my settings:
> Server: Win2000 + SP3 with CVSNT, with ISO8859-1 charset.
> Client where I want to check out the project:
> SuSE Linux 9.3 with CVS and UTF8.
> (Linux nbs1 2.6.11.4-21.8-default #1 Tue Jul 19 12:42:37 UTC 2005 i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux)
> I think, the problem is not cvsnt specific. It sohould also be wrong in 
> cvs for unix.
>
> When I check out the project from the Server, it displays the upper
> error message when cvs starts downloading the file with a umlaut:
> "dirk geht to dirk geht an franz vorüber.jpg"
> For this file, CVS generates the file "*.new.dirk geht" what is not
> correct! After that, cvs stops downloading the files from the server.
>
> When I change the charset in fstab for this partition to iso8859-1, all
> umlauts were not displayed correctly ("ä" gets "?"...), but the checkout
> succeeds. But I want a whole checkout with correct umlauts from Win2k to
> my Linux machines.
>
>
> I hope you cann help me? Maybe this is a bug in cvs?
> Maybe you can suggest an solution for my case?
>
> -Phil
> _______________________________________________
> Bug-cvs mailing list
> Bug-cvs@nongnu.org
> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs