Hi! Thank you for the explaination of this phenomenon.
I think I shall have to read about the different character sets before I can form an opinion on what is to be done.. :-( Thank You Gagneet >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Mark D. Baushke >Sent: Thursday, 25 March, 2004 13:08 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Strange Characters > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Gagneet Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> We are using a CVS repository on a GNU/Linux Red Hat 9.0 installed >> distribution. The CVS server is 1.11.2 and the clients are all based >> on Windows platform where the development is being done. These are >> WinCVS version 1.3.10 and 1.3.13. >> >> Now the problem is that for the characters - "'x'" (without >the double >> quotes), when I checkout on a Windows system, they are being checked >> out properly, but when we checked out the same on a Linux >system they >> appeared as - "~Qx~R" (without the double quotes). > >If you use a hex or octal dump program to actually look at the >text (on the Linux box, the 'od' program with the -x switch >will do the job), I believe you will see that your Windows >text editor is 'helpfully' inserting characters other than the >APOSTROPHE (') character which is hex 0x27 (aka octal 047, aka >decimal 39) and is instead going into some a word processor >mode to give you non-standard encodings for your string. > >The Microsoft Windows system has a non-standard character set >that goes by the name of 'Microsoft Windows Codepage 1252' >which is also known as CP1252. It uses most of the standard >ISO-8859-1 character set encodings, but extends things for a >few encodings of its own. > >My guess is that you are running into the problem of your >editor being 'helpful' to you and mixing the concept of a LEFT >QUOTE CHARACTER and a RIGHT QUOTE CHARACTER with the >APOSTROPHE character that you really want for your C program. > >See http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/1252.htm for >the full table, but here is an extract: > > 1252 Uindex UISOname > ... > 27 0027 APOSTROPHE > ... > 91 2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK > 92 2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK > ... > >The rest of your environment is probably trying to live in the >ISO-8859-1 (aka ISO LATIN 1) character set world. > >There is probably a way to fix your Windows editor to avoid >this problem and use a straight ISO-8859-1 character set >APOSTROPHE. However, I am not a fellow that uses Windows and >am not sure of the answer. > >> I checked up in the Repository files lying on the server and >I got the >> same text - "~Qx~R" (without the double quotes). >> >> Is this the normal behaviour of the CVS repository files to >change the >> - "'x'" (without the double quotes) characters into "~Qx~R" (without >> the double quotes) when getting the files from a Windows system to a >> GNU/Linux System. >> >> The condition has been observed only for the lines which are inside >> the C block comment lines. >> >> Actual file on Windows Systems: >> /* The underscore character '_' is to be replaced in the following >> code segment with '-' */ if ('_' == UNDER_SCORE) >> { >> . >> . >> . >> } >> >> >> Actual file as seen in the GNU/Linux CVS Repository: >> /* The underscore character ~Q_~R is to be replaced in the following >> code segment with '-' */ if ('_' == UNDER_SCORE) >> { >> . >> . >> . >> } >> >> >> Is there some way to rectify this problem so that the >checkout in both >> the Windows and the GNU/Linux systems is the same?? > >The Windows world should be able to live with an ISO-8859-1 >character set. I suggest you try to change from CP1252 to >ISO-8859-1 when writing programs. There should be a way to do >this, I just don't know what it is. > > Good luck, > -- Mark >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) > >iD8DBQFAYoxk3x41pRYZE/gRAkO3AJ9yFh5MedGzg0NSQpiBsf2cXgcgyACgxKGO >yoasCjt1oUGUvE+XadTLFLI= >=mlIE >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
