On Jul 6, 11:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jul 6, 3:01 am, "Rick Genter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Behalf Of Larry Jones > > > Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 2:17 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: Issue with directory name that includes dash > > > like " - " ... > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > During this operation, we noticed that whenever we had a directory > > > > name that had a space-dash-space (" - ") in it, the > > > checkout operation > > > > used to modify it to space-question-space (" ? ") > > > > What versions of CVS are you running? (Do ``cvs version'' in the > > > checked-out directory to find out for sure.) > > > > I am not able to reproduce your problem, so it may be a Red Hat > > > modification (probably to avoid the dash in the name being > > > misinterpreted as the start of a command option). > > > I believe another possibility is that the "dash" wasn't not an ASCII > > hyphen (0x2D) but a non-ASCII character that looks like a hyphen > > (extended ASCII 0xC4, Unicode 0x2010), and that the local system's > > encoding doesn't allow for such characters. > > -- > > Rick Genter > > Principal Software Engineer > > Silverlink Communications- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > Hi Rick, > > This could be a possibility worth exploring. > > However, the directories when added to the repository, were first > created on windows box (dev client workstation) and then added using > WinCVS client. What I would like to ask is would this different ascii > hyphen character by due to the client OS ? Ideally, the dev user when > creating the directory would use the std hyphen (on the keyboard) and > chances of the hyphen from extended ASCII being typed is quite less, > unless someone deliberately adds it that way. > > Regards > Pranay- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
Hi Rick, Thanks for your inputs. The issue indeed was due to the two different ASCII characters. The non-standard ASCII originated when the directory name was picked from the email/Word doc made in MS Office, which probably made it a non-std hyphen character when created. If the directory name was typed in manually, it worked fine. thanks again.
