Re: using unicode filenames in CVS

[Frank Hemer]

On Friday 10 August 2007 16:59, Manuel Polling wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Is CVS capable of dealing with unicode filenames?
> If so, is it advisable to use those kinds of names when you are using
> some other tools that deal with CVS as well? (for instance Eclipse,
> lincvs, cvsnt,...)
>
> I am asking because we seem to be getting some strange issues since
> someone committed files with an æ (that's ae) and an euro sign in the
> file name.

No, its not.
There is no conversion, meaning filenames and even worse, the file content, 
are transmitted as is.
This will cause trouble if one sandbox runs on a iso-8859-1 filesystem and 
another one runs for ex. on a utf-8 fs.

Files checked out from cvs server will be encoded identical to the encoding 
they were checked in with.

Frank