On 8/23/05, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 23 August 2005 10:20, W. Borgert wrote: > > I have checked in some files into svn.debian.org. The files are > > in UTF-8 encoding[1], but the web front-end seems to believe in > > ISO-8859-1. Did I do something wrong when checking in files, or > > is WebSVN too plain in its assumptions? How/where can I file a > > bug, if the problem is in svn.debian.org? TIA! > > > > [1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/ddp/refcard/trunk/entries-ru.dbk?op=file > > WebSVN does not know about the contents of files in the repository period.
Then why does it say it's ISO-8859-1? If it doesn't know, it should say so. > As it is just a frontend to svn, you cannot expect it to know about every > weird file format and encoding around. > IMO, the main purpose of websvn is to be able to view diffs in _code_ and > maybe download individual files. > For everything else, use svn itself and work with its files in their > proper environment. > > If you really want to file a bug about it, the Tech Support Tracking > System for project alioth on alioth is probably your best bet, but I > doubt that is really useful. > > > (If WebSVN does not know about encodings, UTF-8 might be a more > > sensible default than ISO-8859-1 nowadays.) > > Maybe, maybe not. Depends what part of the world you're from. > Food for endless flames^Wdiscussions. > > >
