[cvsnt] Re: Unicode Filenames from linux cvs server are transfered as ANSI to Windows

[Tony Hoyle]

Dietrich Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> problem summary: checking out a file with german Umlaute on Windows from
> a Linux CVS server scrambles the filename.

CVS is inherently ANSI with its filename processing.  With 2.0.51 both 
client and server must be using exactly the same codepage otherwise the 
output will be scrambled for characters >127.

2.0.58 client/server has a translation mode which maps between client 
codepage and server codepage (this works best if the server is in UTF8, 
as that can support any character).  To activate this use the -o option 
on the cvs client command line.

Tony