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Tony Hoyle wrote: >Torsten Martinsen wrote: > > >>I remember reading at some point that CVSNT supports arbitrary file >>names, including Japanese etc. But how is this implemented? Can I pass >>the filename in UTF-8 encoding? >> >> > >If you start the process using unicode APIs (CreateProcessW etc.) then cvsnt >gets the filenames as unicode. > So I can start CVS and specify a filename using a wchar_t string. But how about the -F option, used by the cvsgui protocol? From looking at the code, it looks as if that expects ANSI filenames only. >If you also pass --utf8 then it switches the >client into utf8 so it's able to store arbitrary unicode characters (I guess >you could just pass the command line as UTF8 but I'm not sure how the shell >would interpret it since it's expecting ANSI). > >If you do that all the sandboxes with non-ASCII characters in their filenames >will need an update and probably a re-checkout, since the entries files get >written and parsed as UTF8. > This is only if I specify --utf8, not if I just start CVS using CreateProcessW(), right? -Torsten