X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-9.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BAD2C6A.2090503@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:51:38 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100301 Fedora/3.0.3-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: UTF8 and cvs issues in 1.7.2 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1332E68D82D5AC85DA4B2976" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com --------------enig1332E68D82D5AC85DA4B2976 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/26/2010 03:44 PM, lemkemch AT t-online DOT 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. >=20 > 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. --=20 Eric Blake eblake AT redhat DOT com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enig1332E68D82D5AC85DA4B2976 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkutLG4ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAfzwCePbUD91JbGcAAWxU6wocXi+Em +aMAoKJAsLPqJzfk+vHydX89t/fNlXax =1irB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1332E68D82D5AC85DA4B2976--