2011/7/8 BRAGA, Bruno <bruno.br...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com> >> 2011/7/7 BRAGA, Bruno <bruno.br...@gmail.com>: >> >(...) >> > >> > So, I was wondering if there is any way to set the locale of the SVN >> > client >> > in a server, to ensure it will always checkout using a certain locale >> > (of >> > course, English). Doing so in Japanese or Chinese, for instance, messes >> > up >> > with the compilation of files, if you have enforced locale tags en every >> > file. One good example if the $Date $ keyword, which gives the date in >> > Unicode chars for Japanese. >> >> 1) Do not use $Date$. It is not for you. It 1) uses local timezone, 2) >> uses utf-8 regardless of the actual file encoding. Forcing a locale >> would not solve 1). > > Yes, we are curently using something like: > $ export LC_MESSAGES='en_US.UTF-8' && svn co ... > >> >> 2) Do not use $Id, if you have non-english characters in committer >> login names or in file name (because of utf-8, see above) > > Hum... I did not know that we were not supposed to use this... At lest it is > good to know that this is the solution.
The UTF-8 issue that I mentioned is known as http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2332 >> >> Any other keyword is causing trouble? > > We did not have problems with the $Id, only with the $Date. But I will > follow your suggestion, and remove both. > > However, it kind of kills the merit of using svn:keywords, at least for us. > Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko
