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Re: UTF8 and cvs issues in 1.7.2


On 03/26/2010 03:44 PM, lemkemch@t-online.de wrote:
>> What you can do is either to
>> use ISO-8859-1 sort of like above, or you convert the file content
>> to UTF-8 so you can use UTF-8 from now on.
> 
> The only problem is this file is none of my business.  It's CVS's file.
> What does cvs on linux do in this case?

The same thing; it's just that you've probably never used CVS on Linux
with two different charset encodings between the two uses.  Really, the
change in charset from cygwin 1.5 to 1.7 is a rare event, but it can
certainly cause some grief if you aren't expecting it.

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

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