On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Schroeder, Hartmut <hartmut.schroe...@plath.de> wrote:
> I have a question concerning character encoding of file content. > > Let's say, we have two text files containing german umlauts and with > different file encodings, one file has a 8859-1 encoding and the other > UTF-8. Both file are committed to Subversion (on different machines). > > On a checkout both text files shall have the local encoding (UTF-8, > e.g.) > > Is it possible with Subversion? Subversion does not record the encoding of files, nor does it try to change or convert it. The only thing that Subversion does this for is the filename. It stores all path names in UTF-8 and locally they are determined by your filesystem and locale. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
