Hi Maninder - You can use UTF-8 encoded files.
UTF-8 is a method of representing Unicode text with a stream of 8-bit bytes. The resulting stream is both ASCII-compatible and reverse-ASCII-compatible. A single character can occupy from 1 to 4 bytes. Most IDE and editors like emacs these days, will let you switch the default charset encoding from ASCII to UTF-8. More information on Unicode and UTF-8 is here - http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#14 A UTF-8 encoded source file with text in UTF-8 can be handled by CVS (on Linux etc) without any problems. Most IDEs and Editors supporting CVS can be configured for UTF-8 encoding by default to get Unicode support in CVS to work seamlessly. With regards to CVSNT, the big difference is CVSNT supports a -ku keyword flag to let you have the file in UTF-16 be automatically be converted to UTF-8. Internally CVSNT also stores the files in UTF-8. Since most IDE, editors and tools will do UTF-8 encoding, this may be good enough. For command-line cvs usage, tools like iconv (on UNIX, Cygwin) can be used to go from any format to any other. So just use UTF-8 and you should be home. You could have a script do iconv before and after any ci/co to make it seamless. Rahul Bhargava, CTO, WANdisco Mountain View, CA http://www.wandisco.com/cvs Arthur Barrett wrote: > Maninder, > > CVS does not support Unicode files, instead they must be committed as binary, > in which case you cannot do diff/merge etc. > > CVSNT on Mac/Linux/Unix/Windows (free, open source, GPL, just like CVS) does > support unicode files (-ku). > > Please supply more information (file type in repository, cvs version etc). > > To determine the "status" of the file use: > cvs status myfile > > To determine your version of CVS use: > cvs version > > If you are using CVSNT then the CVSNT newsgroup is the place that the > developers of CVSNT answer questions: > > news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt <news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt> > > or > > http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt > <http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt> > > > Regards, > > > Arthur Barrett > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maninder > Singh(SDG) > Sent: Thursday, 16 June 2005 1:51 AM > To: info-cvs@gnu.org > Subject: Regarding check-in of unicode characters. > > > > Hi All, > > We are trying to check-in the following characters into CVS. > > But while doing so, the highlighted characters get corrupt and upon > checking out, these are replaced by some other characters. > > Sí (means yes in Spanish) > > Sì (means yes in Italian) > > > > Can anybody provide a solution? > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > Maninder Singh _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
