UTF8 and cvs issues in 1.7.2

Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com
Thu Mar 25 23:24:00 GMT 2010


On 03/25/2010 05:05 PM, lemkemch@t-online.de wrote:
>  orion> cvs -qn up -l
> U äppel.txt
> cvs update: warning: `▒ppel.txt' is not (any longer) pertinent
> 
> And frankly, I can't see how the terminal could influence the
> behavior of the cvs executable.  I am not talking about the
> displayed characters here but that cvs wants to update a file.

I wonder if the problem is that CVS/Entries was created under one
charset, but you are now using a different charset.  I suppose you could
use iconv to convert the file to the correct encoding.  Or it may be a
sign that cvs has not yet been recompiled to be charset-aware.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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