[cvsnt] Re: loginfo and german umlauts

Zsolt Koppany zkoppanylist at intland.com
Thu Jan 29 17:33:54 GMT 2004


Hi Tony,

I understand that, but why doesn't my application - started by loginfo - get
'?' characters where german characters should be?


I do get the commit comment from "cvs log" correctly, I have problems only
with "loginfo".

Zsolt

"Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:bvbfge$11j$1 at sisko.local.nodomain.org...
> Zsolt Koppany wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > the loginfo script can read the entered commit comment from "stdin". It
> > works, however I don't get the entered German Umlauts correctly. The
server
> > is Linux and the client Windows (with eclipse). Because I have to store
the
> > entered commit comment how can I get the german umlauts correctly and
which
> > encoding should I use.
> >
> CVS doesn't do anything with the commit comment except store it and
> therefore encodings are irrelevant to it.  As long as the client you
> look at the log information with is using the same codepage as the
> client that posted it, it'll make sense.
>
> Tony
>





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